From the Annals of Banishment  —  In1844, President Anson Jones banished Duff Green from the Republic of Texas. Green was a political of John C. Calhoun who had been appointed United States consul at Galveston.  Green was also charged with communicating with Mexico in the interest of acquiring Texas, New Mexico, and California for the United States.  Green sought to have the Texas Congress pass a bill establishing the Texas Land Company and the Del Norte Company purportedly to occupy and claim for Texas the northern provinces of Mexico with the aid of the Texas Army and some Indian tribes. Green essentially offered to bribe Jones with stock in the proposed companies if he would support the plan.  After Jones refused, Green threatened to start a revolution and overthrow the Jones administration. Jones gave Green his passport and barred him from Texas as a consular official.