The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 strán (strany) Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... ANNEXATION 200-203 CHAPTER XIX . MILITARY 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 ...
... ANNEXATION 200-203 CHAPTER XIX . MILITARY 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 ...
Strana 11
... Annexation of Texas , a sanguinary and embittered war , and the dismemberment of Mexico . The relations of cause and effect hold true in the moral as surely as in the material world . Nations reap what they sow . We have , in sober fact ...
... Annexation of Texas , a sanguinary and embittered war , and the dismemberment of Mexico . The relations of cause and effect hold true in the moral as surely as in the material world . Nations reap what they sow . We have , in sober fact ...
Strana 15
... Annexation was devised , as openly declared by some of its staunchest advocates , to give greater security to the institutions of the South . The clear and direct inference is , that slavery and the war with Mex- ico have had a cause ...
... Annexation was devised , as openly declared by some of its staunchest advocates , to give greater security to the institutions of the South . The clear and direct inference is , that slavery and the war with Mex- ico have had a cause ...
Strana 17
... annexation was not suffered to sleep , but from year to year was cherished and developed by its zeal- ous and untiring friends . The great end , too , which it would eventually subserve , was kept distinctly in view . Mr. Upshur ...
... annexation was not suffered to sleep , but from year to year was cherished and developed by its zeal- ous and untiring friends . The great end , too , which it would eventually subserve , was kept distinctly in view . Mr. Upshur ...
Strana 19
... ( annexation ) as involving the security of the South ; and the strength and prosperity of every part of the Union . " It would be easy to quote by chapter and verse , from the official documents of the time , many passages of a similar ...
... ( annexation ) as involving the security of the South ; and the strength and prosperity of every part of the Union . " It would be easy to quote by chapter and verse , from the official documents of the time , many passages of a similar ...
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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.