 As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.  The Review of Reviews - Page 344publié par - 1895Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1917 - 732 pages
...Mexican attack was followed by a special message of May 11, 1846, in which Polk boldly declared that "war exists and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself." On that basis Congress was swept into a declaration of war. The wrath of the antislavery men over the... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1918 - 382 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are now at war. As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 382 pages
...to justify the act. The reasons he gave in his war message to Congress of May n, 1846, were that " war exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico itself," and that this was because " now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary... | |
 | Justin Harvey Smith - 1919 - 630 pages
...soil.2 She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are now at war . . . war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to...avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself." "The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering... | |
 | Emerson David Fite - 1919 - 1164 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are now at war. As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | Justin Harvey Smith - 1919 - 664 pages
...of Mexico to pay our claims, but its practical gist was contained in the following sentence : " As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 666 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced and that the two nations are now at war. " As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | Clarence Arthur Berdahl - 1921 - 312 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are now at war. As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 646 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have co'mmenced and that the two nations are now at war. " As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1921 - 688 pages
...soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced and that the two nations are now at war. " As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor,... | |
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