The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 strán (strany) Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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Strana 15
... never would have advanced either to the Nueces or to the Rio Grande , had it not been for the osten- sible purpose of protecting our newly - acquired domains . But the scheme of Annexation was devised , as openly declared by some of its ...
... never would have advanced either to the Nueces or to the Rio Grande , had it not been for the osten- sible purpose of protecting our newly - acquired domains . But the scheme of Annexation was devised , as openly declared by some of its ...
Strana 21
... never receive the sanction of the slave States . " Numerous testimonies to the deep interest taken by Southern statesmen in the measure of annexation , as des- tined to enlarge , not " the area of freedom , " but of slavery , may be ...
... never receive the sanction of the slave States . " Numerous testimonies to the deep interest taken by Southern statesmen in the measure of annexation , as des- tined to enlarge , not " the area of freedom , " but of slavery , may be ...
Strana 29
... never will be dissolved on that question . " * Mr. Roberts , of Mississippi , demanded in the House of Representatives , Feb. 4 , 1847 : " And are we to tell a Butler , a Quitman , a Davis , a Yell , a Price , a Pillow , and a host of ...
... never will be dissolved on that question . " * Mr. Roberts , of Mississippi , demanded in the House of Representatives , Feb. 4 , 1847 : " And are we to tell a Butler , a Quitman , a Davis , a Yell , a Price , a Pillow , and a host of ...
Strana 49
... never ; fifty - four forty , or fight ; " and all this inflammatory patriotism was easily turned , when the occasion served , into another channel , and the sword drawn against Mexico instead of England . The conflict burst upon the ...
... never ; fifty - four forty , or fight ; " and all this inflammatory patriotism was easily turned , when the occasion served , into another channel , and the sword drawn against Mexico instead of England . The conflict burst upon the ...
Strana 51
... for the injury . But it does not appear that offences of this kind have been committed by Mexico . " poleon , and never thought it necessary to make the ARGUMENTS FOR PEACE . 51 CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF THE WAR, ARGUMENTS.
... for the injury . But it does not appear that offences of this kind have been committed by Mexico . " poleon , and never thought it necessary to make the ARGUMENTS FOR PEACE . 51 CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF THE WAR, ARGUMENTS.
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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.