 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 584 sider
...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. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1912
...facts, he sent a special message to Congress, May nth, saying: "Now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are... | |
 | George Lockhart Rives - 1913 - 726 sider
...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. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - 1913 - 534 sider
...attack he placed the blame for war upon the Mexicans, declaring in a message to Congress that, "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." Congress did not declare war upon Mexico, but adopted an act "for the prosecution... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 250 sider
...irritating. "We have tried every effort at conciliation. . . . 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 ... As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the... | |
 | James Schouler - 1889
...citizens cried out against her.f All this was enough to exhaust the cup of forbearance; but now "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." " War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act... | |
 | Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.) - 1914 - 673 sider
...receive our minister. Polk promptly informed Congress, "Mexico has refused to receive our minister, has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and has shed American blood upon American soil." Congress, adopting the assertions of the President without... | |
 | 1916
...President Polk wrote his war message in 1846 he informed Congress and the American people that "Mexico has" passed the boundary of the United States, has...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." What we know today puts another face on the situation. We know that Polk, at the... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 355 sider
...exists by the act of Mexico itself," and that this was because "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." Abraham Lincoln was elected to the next Congress. He was a Whig and therefore in... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1918
...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 Amer.can soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are... | |
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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... 
