The War with Mexico ReviewedAmerican Peace Society, 1850 - 298 sivua Contains historical criticism of the Mexican-American War. |
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... called slavery is in reality a political institution ; essential to the peace , safety , and prosperity of those States of the Union in which it exists . " * The diplomatic agents , both American and Mexican , agreed as to the object of ...
... called slavery is in reality a political institution ; essential to the peace , safety , and prosperity of those States of the Union in which it exists . " * The diplomatic agents , both American and Mexican , agreed as to the object of ...
Sivu 50
... called pretexts , than causes of war . They cloaked the designs of ambition . They were ready stimulants to national pride in the hands of expert moulders of public opinion . But the real circumstances that predisposed our countrymen to ...
... called pretexts , than causes of war . They cloaked the designs of ambition . They were ready stimulants to national pride in the hands of expert moulders of public opinion . But the real circumstances that predisposed our countrymen to ...
Sivu 53
... called for his passports and returned home after that mea- sure was passed by Congress , and that the further payment of the claims was suspended , and that Mexico refused to accredit Mr. Slidell as a Resident Minister . Many states ...
... called for his passports and returned home after that mea- sure was passed by Congress , and that the further payment of the claims was suspended , and that Mexico refused to accredit Mr. Slidell as a Resident Minister . Many states ...
Sivu 64
... called in question . He says : " It is true Mexico claimed the whole of Texas ; but it is equally true that she recognized the dif- ference , and showed a disposition to act upon it , between the country known as Texas proper and the ...
... called in question . He says : " It is true Mexico claimed the whole of Texas ; but it is equally true that she recognized the dif- ference , and showed a disposition to act upon it , between the country known as Texas proper and the ...
Sivu 68
... called " treaty " of San Jacinto . It is true that Texas had exercised some acts of " sove- reignty and jurisdiction west of the Nueces . Corpus Christi was on that side of the river . But power was one thing , and right was another ...
... called " treaty " of San Jacinto . It is true that Texas had exercised some acts of " sove- reignty and jurisdiction west of the Nueces . Corpus Christi was on that side of the river . But power was one thing , and right was another ...
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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.