The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 psl. Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... loss to trace the origin and growth of this fearful passion . For the time we have existed as a people , we have been no sluggards in the use of the sword . The old French and Indian wars occu- pied our great grandfathers ; the ...
... loss to trace the origin and growth of this fearful passion . For the time we have existed as a people , we have been no sluggards in the use of the sword . The old French and Indian wars occu- pied our great grandfathers ; the ...
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... loss to the agent , in the long run , which has sanctioned the common principle , that honesty is the best policy ... losses . ' - JEFFERSON . NOTWITHSTANDING the foregoing irrefragable proofs that the boundary between Texas and Mexico ...
... loss to the agent , in the long run , which has sanctioned the common principle , that honesty is the best policy ... losses . ' - JEFFERSON . NOTWITHSTANDING the foregoing irrefragable proofs that the boundary between Texas and Mexico ...
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... loss , the poor man's garden trampled by the hoofs of the war - troop , the corn - fields cut up for forage , the little improvements on his acre ravaged , the one " ewe lamb " ta- ken , the widow's cow driven away , or the EXPENDITURES ...
... loss , the poor man's garden trampled by the hoofs of the war - troop , the corn - fields cut up for forage , the little improvements on his acre ravaged , the one " ewe lamb " ta- ken , the widow's cow driven away , or the EXPENDITURES ...
85 psl.
... loss will fall , and fall with the certainty of gravitation . Far away it may be ; and mixed up and mystified with endless details of currency , and tariffs and income - taxes , it probably will be ; but upon the rich man's property ...
... loss will fall , and fall with the certainty of gravitation . Far away it may be ; and mixed up and mystified with endless details of currency , and tariffs and income - taxes , it probably will be ; but upon the rich man's property ...
86 psl.
... loss visibly of a single dol- lar out of our own pocket would occasion . And it is perhaps somewhat to this ... losses that go unrecorded , the sum total would exceed rather than fall short of the above statements . And here observe ...
... loss visibly of a single dol- lar out of our own pocket would occasion . And it is perhaps somewhat to this ... losses that go unrecorded , the sum total would exceed rather than fall short of the above statements . And here observe ...
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1st Session 30th Congress Agua Nueva American American Peace Society Anglo Saxon annexation of Texas arms army barbarism battle blood boundary Buena Vista California camp cause CHAPTER Chihuahua Christ Christian citizens civil claims Coahuila command conquest Cruz death declared destiny earth enemy evil Executive feel fight force freedom glory heart heaven honor hope hostilities House of Representatives human institutions invasion Jalapa killed land letter liberty loss Matamoras ment mercy Mexican Mexican war military Minister Monterey moral nations negotiation Nueces officers Pacific parties passions peace political President Puebla question regiment republic Republic of Texas Rio Grande Saltillo Santa Anna Santa Fé says scenes Senate sick slavery slaves Slidell soldiers South spirit suffering sword Tamaulipas Taylor territory Texan Thou thousands tion treaty troops true Union United Vera Cruz volunteers warlike whole wounded wrong
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264 psl. - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
164 psl. - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
290 psl. - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
273 psl. - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
207 psl. - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees...
5 psl. - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
71 psl. - It is expected that, in selecting the establishment for your troops, you will approach as near the boundary line — the Rio Grande — as prudence will dictate. With this view the President desires that your position, for a part of your forces at least, should be west of the river Nueces.
3 psl. - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
221 psl. - Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
207 psl. - The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them; insomuch, that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. In indulging these feelings; I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind, is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.