The War with Mexico ReviewedW. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850 - 298 psl. Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... slavery of three millions of immortal beings , and the endless wrongs of the natives of the soil , which we so proudly tread , to enumerate no other crimes ; we shall admit , with great reluctance , that either of the gigantic progenies ...
... slavery of three millions of immortal beings , and the endless wrongs of the natives of the soil , which we so proudly tread , to enumerate no other crimes ; we shall admit , with great reluctance , that either of the gigantic progenies ...
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... Slavery , as institutions and customs at variance with free institutions and the Christian religion . The passion for land , also , is a leading characteristic of the American people . Coming out of the straitened limits of the old ...
... Slavery , as institutions and customs at variance with free institutions and the Christian religion . The passion for land , also , is a leading characteristic of the American people . Coming out of the straitened limits of the old ...
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... slavery the main - spring to the war with Mexico . Had the idea of extending the " peculiar " institutions of the South , and the political power resulting therefrom , been entirely excluded from the ques- tion , not a shot would ever ...
... slavery the main - spring to the war with Mexico . Had the idea of extending the " peculiar " institutions of the South , and the political power resulting therefrom , been entirely excluded from the ques- tion , not a shot would ever ...
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... slavery not existed in our land , there would have been no annex- ation ; and had there been no annexation , there ... slaves . A late law of Louisiana re- duced their value twenty - five per cent in two hours after its passage was known ...
... slavery not existed in our land , there would have been no annex- ation ; and had there been no annexation , there ... slaves . A late law of Louisiana re- duced their value twenty - five per cent in two hours after its passage was known ...
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... slaves fell twenty - five per cent within two hours after the news was received of the non - importation act which was passed by the Legislature of Louisiana . Yet he believed the acquisition of Texas would raise their price fifty per ...
... slaves fell twenty - five per cent within two hours after the news was received of the non - importation act which was passed by the Legislature of Louisiana . Yet he believed the acquisition of Texas would raise their price fifty per ...
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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.