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Page 41
... troops , ostensibly to ward off * Mr . Houston's speech in the U. S. Senate , Feb. 19 , 1847. Also , his Letter to the Texas Banner , July 18 , 1847 . † See Pres . Tyler's Message to the Senate , May 15 , 1844 , with the accompanying ...
... troops , ostensibly to ward off * Mr . Houston's speech in the U. S. Senate , Feb. 19 , 1847. Also , his Letter to the Texas Banner , July 18 , 1847 . † See Pres . Tyler's Message to the Senate , May 15 , 1844 , with the accompanying ...
Page 43
... , appriz- ed of the posture of affairs . Troops have been assembled on our Southern frontier , ready to act as circumstances may demand . " These proceedings , however , are purely and exclusively PREPARATION OF WAR . 43.
... , appriz- ed of the posture of affairs . Troops have been assembled on our Southern frontier , ready to act as circumstances may demand . " These proceedings , however , are purely and exclusively PREPARATION OF WAR . 43.
Page 46
... troops into the disputed territory ( previously stated to be the territory ' West of the Nueces . ' " ) The Washington Union , of June 11th , advises that " the Texans themselves should collect their own volunteers , and march to repel ...
... troops into the disputed territory ( previously stated to be the territory ' West of the Nueces . ' " ) The Washington Union , of June 11th , advises that " the Texans themselves should collect their own volunteers , and march to repel ...
Page 47
... troops on the Sabine to advance upon the Rio Grande , to repel the menaced irruption of the Mex- icans upon the territory of Texas , ) but we must say that we had rather see our troops marching towards the Rio Grande , than to any other ...
... troops on the Sabine to advance upon the Rio Grande , to repel the menaced irruption of the Mex- icans upon the territory of Texas , ) but we must say that we had rather see our troops marching towards the Rio Grande , than to any other ...
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... troops were received and sent on to the fron- tiers . The military spirit was rampant in the capital of the Mississippi Valley . The War Department of the United States was put in a state of unusual activity ; arms were made ready and ...
... troops were received and sent on to the fron- tiers . The military spirit was rampant in the capital of the Mississippi Valley . The War Department of the United States was put in a state of unusual activity ; arms were made ready and ...
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Page 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...
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 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.
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 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 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...
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.
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 13 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 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.