The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 strán (strany) Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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Strana 16
... President Houston said in his annual Message to the Congress of the Republic of Texas , in 1837 ; " not unconnected with the naval force of the country is the subject of the African slave - trade . It cannot be disbelieved that ...
... President Houston said in his annual Message to the Congress of the Republic of Texas , in 1837 ; " not unconnected with the naval force of the country is the subject of the African slave - trade . It cannot be disbelieved that ...
Strana 21
... President Tyler . In his Message of April 22 , 1844 , he said : " At the same time , the Southern and the South- Western States will find , in the fact of annexation , protec- tion and security to their peace and tranquillity , as well ...
... President Tyler . In his Message of April 22 , 1844 , he said : " At the same time , the Southern and the South- Western States will find , in the fact of annexation , protec- tion and security to their peace and tranquillity , as well ...
Strana 38
... President to instruct you not to leave that Republic until you shall have made a formal demand to be received by the new government . " * On the 14th of January , Mr. Slidell had stated that his notes to Mr. Pena y Pena had " not yet ...
... President to instruct you not to leave that Republic until you shall have made a formal demand to be received by the new government . " * On the 14th of January , Mr. Slidell had stated that his notes to Mr. Pena y Pena had " not yet ...
Strana 43
... President executes a solemn act of Congress , and the expressed will of his constituents . We pity Mexico , torn as she is by domestic factions , whose sole object is to rob its poor and suffering people ; but when she talks of war with ...
... President executes a solemn act of Congress , and the expressed will of his constituents . We pity Mexico , torn as she is by domestic factions , whose sole object is to rob its poor and suffering people ; but when she talks of war with ...
Strana 48
... President , to raise 6,000 volunteers . Hon . R. M. Johnson , ex Vice - Pres- ident of the United States , in a letter to the President , dated Aug. 25th , offered himself and the brave Kentuckians for the cause . Are not all these ...
... President , to raise 6,000 volunteers . Hon . R. M. Johnson , ex Vice - Pres- ident of the United States , in a letter to the President , dated Aug. 25th , offered himself and the brave Kentuckians for the cause . Are not all these ...
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Strana 264 - 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...
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 237 - 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.
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 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 237 - 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...
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.
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 13 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Strana 129 - 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.