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... Executive of the United States , the reproach and the cen- sure of nations ought to be her reward . ” Mr. Green had previously said , on the 23d of the same month , what would justify this Mexican inference : ‡ “ The undersigned is also ...
... Executive of the United States , the reproach and the cen- sure of nations ought to be her reward . ” Mr. Green had previously said , on the 23d of the same month , what would justify this Mexican inference : ‡ “ The undersigned is also ...
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... Executive and the legislative branch of the Government , no explicit declaration was made , when war was declared , of the indebtedness of Mexico to the United States as a bonâ fide reason for fighting . The next pretext was the refusal ...
... Executive and the legislative branch of the Government , no explicit declaration was made , when war was declared , of the indebtedness of Mexico to the United States as a bonâ fide reason for fighting . The next pretext was the refusal ...
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... Executive Documents , No. 60 : " The delay has arisen solely from certain diffi- culties occasioned by the nature of the credentials . " See the Letter of Pena y Pena to Mr. Slidell , Dec. 16 , 1845. See his letter also to the Mexican ...
... Executive Documents , No. 60 : " The delay has arisen solely from certain diffi- culties occasioned by the nature of the credentials . " See the Letter of Pena y Pena to Mr. Slidell , Dec. 16 , 1845. See his letter also to the Mexican ...
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... 30th Congress , 1st Session , House of Representatives , Executive Documents , No. 60 , p . 64 . † Ibid . p . 50 . § Ibid . p . 123 . ‡ Ibid . p . 66 . the course of modesty would at least have dictated that 38 PRETEXTS FOR WAR .
... 30th Congress , 1st Session , House of Representatives , Executive Documents , No. 60 , p . 64 . † Ibid . p . 50 . § Ibid . p . 123 . ‡ Ibid . p . 66 . the course of modesty would at least have dictated that 38 PRETEXTS FOR WAR .
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... Executive had time to lay the matter before Congress to decide the question of peace or war . The Christian mode of proceeding cannot he better stated than in the words of Mr. Gallatin : " Yet , when Mexico re- fused to receive Mr ...
... Executive had time to lay the matter before Congress to decide the question of peace or war . The Christian mode of proceeding cannot he better stated than in the words of Mr. Gallatin : " Yet , when Mexico re- fused to receive Mr ...
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Page 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. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 164 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
Page 290 - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
Page 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.
Page 207 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 3 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Page 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.
Page 207 - The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them; insomuch, that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. In indulging these feelings; I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind, is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it, by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.