The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 strán (strany) Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... soldiers , who have bravely volunteered , and shed their blood , and dissi- pated their treasure , who represent millions of slave holders , that , after the territory that may be acquired has been pur- chased at so fearful a cost ...
... soldiers , who have bravely volunteered , and shed their blood , and dissi- pated their treasure , who represent millions of slave holders , that , after the territory that may be acquired has been pur- chased at so fearful a cost ...
Strana 30
Abiel Abbot Livermore. officers and soldiers more favorable opportunities for their display . All have done their duty nobly , and high courage and gallantry are but common attributes of our people . Would it be right and just to close a ...
Abiel Abbot Livermore. officers and soldiers more favorable opportunities for their display . All have done their duty nobly , and high courage and gallantry are but common attributes of our people . Would it be right and just to close a ...
Strana 44
... soldier to form the nucleus of twenty - thousand volunteers . ” The Nashville Union of May 24th , quoted in the Washing- ton Union of May 31 , 1845 , discourses thus : " Mexico may declare war , but that will not dissolve the bonds of ...
... soldier to form the nucleus of twenty - thousand volunteers . ” The Nashville Union of May 24th , quoted in the Washing- ton Union of May 31 , 1845 , discourses thus : " Mexico may declare war , but that will not dissolve the bonds of ...
Strana 49
... soldiers , reconnoitering and spying out the land The position and movements of the United States ' troops at Corpus Christi , ever since Gen. Taylor has been there , have excited much alarm , fear , and jealousy , in the minds of the ...
... soldiers , reconnoitering and spying out the land The position and movements of the United States ' troops at Corpus Christi , ever since Gen. Taylor has been there , have excited much alarm , fear , and jealousy , in the minds of the ...
Strana 73
... soldier must obey orders . " If these things were not so , why did not the brave commander fire on these presumptuous aggressors , who had penetrated so far into an American State under the protection of the Union ? Once at least Gen ...
... soldier must obey orders . " If these things were not so , why did not the brave commander fire on these presumptuous aggressors , who had penetrated so far into an American State under the protection of the Union ? Once at least Gen ...
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Strana 264 - 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.
Strana 164 - 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.
Strana 290 - 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.
Strana 273 - 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.
Strana 207 - 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...
Strana 5 - 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.
Strana 71 - 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.
Strana 3 - 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...
Strana 221 - 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.
Strana 207 - 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.