The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 psl. Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... GLORY 204-208 CHAPTER XX . THE TRUE DESTINY OF THE UNITED STATES 208-212 CHAPTER XXI . THE STATESMAN'S RETRIBUTION 213-219 CHAPTER XXII . WAR MAXIMS 219-227 CHAPTER XXIII . MARTIAL LITERATURE 227-230 CHAPTER XXIV . WAR AND THE FIRE ...
... GLORY 204-208 CHAPTER XX . THE TRUE DESTINY OF THE UNITED STATES 208-212 CHAPTER XXI . THE STATESMAN'S RETRIBUTION 213-219 CHAPTER XXII . WAR MAXIMS 219-227 CHAPTER XXIII . MARTIAL LITERATURE 227-230 CHAPTER XXIV . WAR AND THE FIRE ...
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... glory , and to reveal the incalculable evils of international war . We have great advantages for the ac- complishment of this purpose , in the very recent occurrence of the contest ; the voluminous public documents , correspon- dence ...
... glory , and to reveal the incalculable evils of international war . We have great advantages for the ac- complishment of this purpose , in the very recent occurrence of the contest ; the voluminous public documents , correspon- dence ...
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... glory of free institutions , the blessings of civil and religious liberty , and the extension of our industrial and commercial system . Alas ! we have thus discovered opiates to lull our consciences when they were uneasy , and tonics to ...
... glory of free institutions , the blessings of civil and religious liberty , and the extension of our industrial and commercial system . Alas ! we have thus discovered opiates to lull our consciences when they were uneasy , and tonics to ...
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... glory of the nation ? The Washington Union of May 23 , 1845 , quoted with approbation the words of an American , who had lately been in Texas , and who congratulated the editors on the success * Appendix to the Congressional Globe ...
... glory of the nation ? The Washington Union of May 23 , 1845 , quoted with approbation the words of an American , who had lately been in Texas , and who congratulated the editors on the success * Appendix to the Congressional Globe ...
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... glory in the other . We confess that money is not the chief good of life , and that wasting it by millions is not the chief evil of war . We confess that there are things which a nation should hold infinitely dearer than an over ...
... glory in the other . We confess that money is not the chief good of life , and that wasting it by millions is not the chief evil of war . We confess that there are things which a nation should hold infinitely dearer than an over ...
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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 principles Puebla question regiment republic Republic of Texas Rio Grande Saltillo Santa Anna says scenes Scott 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. - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
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.
237 psl. - But the noble Mexic women still their holy task pursued, Through that long, dark night of sorrow, worn and faint and lacking food ; Over weak and suffering brothers, with a tender care they hung, And the dying foeman blessed them in a strange and Northern tongue.
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.
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.
237 psl. - Spake the mournful Mexic woman, as she laid him with her dead, And turned to soothe the living, and bind the wounds which bled. Look forth once more, Ximena! "Like a cloud before the wind...
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.
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.
13 psl. - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
129 psl. - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.