...Mexico, hy Brigadier General SW Kearney, commanding the troops of the United States in the same : As by the act of the republic of Mexico a state of war...exists between that government and the United States, and as the undersigned, at the head of his troops, on the 18th instant took possession of Santa F6,...

...enforce our rights. By the act of congress of the 13th of May, 1846, it was expressly declared that by the act of the republic of Mexico, a state of war existed between that government and th•e United States, and it became the duty of the President of...

...Congress providing for the prosecution ot the war, and its preamble set forth as follows : — " Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that government and the United States, therefore," &c. The vote on this was 173 yeas to 14 nays. No. 2. — The vote on the general tariff...

...followed by the passage of a bill through both Houses of Congress, with a preamble as follows : " Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that government and the United States." Tho bill then provides for the enrollment of a force not to exceed fifty thousand volunteers, and appropriates...

...prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico. Preamble. Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that Government and the United States: President autho™- SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentdVnavSfSd mill- tatives...

...followed by the passage of a bill through both Houses of Congress, with a preamble as follows : " Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that government and the United States." The bill then provides for the enrollment of a force not to exceed fifty thousand volunteers, and appropriates...

...the prosecution of the existing uxtr between the United States and the Republic of Mexico. " Whereas, by the Act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that Government and the United States," the President may employ the militia, naval and military forces of the United States, and may call...

...he quotes the notorious falsehood of the preamble of the War resolutions of Congress, " that by an act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists" between the two countries, and then proceeds, after reciting the authority touching volunteers and the request...

...between the United States ami the Republic of Iftxico," Whereas, by the Act of the Republic of Mcxiico, a state of war exists between that government and the United States, Therefore — Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of RcprttKntaimst of the United Stales of America...

...the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act hearing date this day, that ' by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war...exists between that Government and the United States:' " Now, therefore, I, James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim to...