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... Mexican War . - Its Object and Results .. Retirement . - Sickness . - Death - - - 274 284 CHAPTER XII . ZACHA RY TAYLOR . Birth . - Emigration to Kentucky . - Neglected Education . - Enters the Army . - Life on the Frontier.- Battles ...
... Mexican War . - Its Object and Results .. Retirement . - Sickness . - Death - - - 274 284 CHAPTER XII . ZACHA RY TAYLOR . Birth . - Emigration to Kentucky . - Neglected Education . - Enters the Army . - Life on the Frontier.- Battles ...
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... Mexican War . - Its Object and Results . - Retirement . - Sickness . - Death . NEAR the south - western frontier of North Carolina , on the east- ern banks of the Catawba , there is a region now called the County of Mecklenburg . In ...
... Mexican War . - Its Object and Results . - Retirement . - Sickness . - Death . NEAR the south - western frontier of North Carolina , on the east- ern banks of the Catawba , there is a region now called the County of Mecklenburg . In ...
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... Mexicans were utterly repulsed . Population from the United States rapidly flowed in . It was manifest to every one that Mexico could never regain her lost province . The first step was triumphantly accomplished . A few months after ...
... Mexicans were utterly repulsed . Population from the United States rapidly flowed in . It was manifest to every one that Mexico could never regain her lost province . The first step was triumphantly accomplished . A few months after ...
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... Mexicans said was the western boundary of Texas . Then he was sent nearly two hun- dred miles farther west , to the Rio Grande , where he erected batteries which commanded the Mexican city of Matamoras , which was situated on the ...
... Mexicans said was the western boundary of Texas . Then he was sent nearly two hun- dred miles farther west , to the Rio Grande , where he erected batteries which commanded the Mexican city of Matamoras , which was situated on the ...
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... Mexican troops crossed the river , and a conflict ensued , President Polk announced to the country that war with ... Mexicans , in every encounter , were hopelessly and awfully slaughtered . The day of judgment alone can reveal the ...
... Mexican troops crossed the river , and a conflict ensued , President Polk announced to the country that war with ... Mexicans , in every encounter , were hopelessly and awfully slaughtered . The day of judgment alone can reveal the ...
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Page 429 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth...
Page 205 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Page 391 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 406 - ... especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion, by armed force, of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Page 408 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 132 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Page 416 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 407 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence, in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation, in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, 'to form a more perfect Union.
Page 30 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Page 408 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.