 | Charles Francis Adams - 1900 - 426 sider
...following, President Polk sent to Congress his message, at once famous and infamous, declaring that " War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico itself." A war of spoliation had thus been entered upon, — a war the pur1 Von Hoist, iii. 315-318.... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 627 sider
...have tried every effort at reconciliation. The cup of forbearance has been exhausted. . . . Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...territory, and shed American blood upon American soil." And that, "War exists ... by the act of Mexico herself." "Energetic and prompt measures" were recommended.... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902
...citizens" — an admission that the boundary question was still unsettled — he asserts that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil."1 1 U. 8. Govt Doc., Cong. 30, Ses. 1, H. Ex. 60, p. 48. Benton, Thirty Years' View. ii. 678,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905
...executive's knowledge when on May nth he sent his urgent message to Congress, in which he declared " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil," that a state of war existed and the legislative body should place at the disposal... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 632 sider
....sent to Congress a special message, in which he declared that" 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"; and that, " as war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - 1905 - 632 sider
...sent to Congress a special message, in which he declared that " 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 " ; and that, " as war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it,... | |
 | Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - 1905 - 489 sider
...executive's knowledge when on May 11th he sent his urgent message to Congress, in which he declared " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil," that a state of war existed and the legislative body should place at the disposal... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1905 - 293 sider
...the United States, he had the unblushing effrontery to declare that " after reiterated menaces Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil," 2 and further, that " war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - 1906 - 476 sider
...Washington, Polk sent a special message to Congress (May 12, 1846), in which he said that " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...territory and shed American blood upon American soil, and war exists, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, JAMES K. POLK. Mr. Polk was born in North... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906
...Mexico's reasonable claim to the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, asserted that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...territory, and shed American blood upon American soil." Two days later Congress issued a formal declaration of war, and threw the onus of striking the first... | |
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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... 
