The War with Mexico ReviewedW. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850 - 298 sivua Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... Congress , in the year 1850 , by JOHN FIELD , TREAS . AM . PEACE SOC . , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts . ANDOVER : J. D. FLAGG AND W. H. WARD WELL , STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS . NOTE . The Committe of Award ...
... Congress , in the year 1850 , by JOHN FIELD , TREAS . AM . PEACE SOC . , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts . ANDOVER : J. D. FLAGG AND W. H. WARD WELL , STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS . NOTE . The Committe of Award ...
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... Congress has intervened since the essay was written , which has con- firmed and developed some important points . Hence the attempt is made to bring its conclusions down to the present time . The conflict with Mexico was short , and ...
... Congress has intervened since the essay was written , which has con- firmed and developed some important points . Hence the attempt is made to bring its conclusions down to the present time . The conflict with Mexico was short , and ...
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... Congress , by the most distinguished men of the country , that the time had arrived for us to do " some great thing , " to let the Old World know that we were not the cowards or sluggards they might otherwise suppose us to be . As if it ...
... Congress , by the most distinguished men of the country , that the time had arrived for us to do " some great thing , " to let the Old World know that we were not the cowards or sluggards they might otherwise suppose us to be . As if it ...
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... 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 thousands of Africans have lately been imported 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 thousands of Africans have lately been imported to the ...
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... the abolition of domestic slavery in Texas . ” † * Moody's Facts for the People , pp . 69 , 70 . † 28th Congress , 1st Session , Senate , 341 , pp . 21 , 22 . On Sept. 22d , the subject was renewed ; he 2 * THE CHIEF MOTIVE OF THE WAR . 17.
... the abolition of domestic slavery in Texas . ” † * Moody's Facts for the People , pp . 69 , 70 . † 28th Congress , 1st Session , Senate , 341 , pp . 21 , 22 . On Sept. 22d , the subject was renewed ; he 2 * THE CHIEF MOTIVE OF THE WAR . 17.
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 13 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Sivu 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.