Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1912
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1912
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1902
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1902
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1912
Author: Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1912
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230063379
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Languages : en
Pages : 350
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...and solemn treaties pledging her public faith for this redress have been disregarded. A government either unable or unwilling to enforce the execution of such treaties fails to perform one of its plainest duties. Our commerce with Mexico has been almost annihilated. It was formerly highly beneficial to both nations, but our merchants have been deterred from prosecuting it by the system of outrage and extortion which the Mexican authorities have pursued against them, while their appeals through their own government for indemnity have been made in vain. Our forbearance has gone to such an extreme as to be mistaken in its character. Had we acted with vigor in repelling the insults and redressing the injuries inflicted by Mexico at the commencement, we should doubtless have escaped all the difficulties in which ve are now involved. Instead of this, however, we have been exerting our best efforts to propitiate her good-will. Upon the pretext that Texas, a nation as independent as herself, thought proper to unite its destinies with our own, she has affected to believe that we have severed her rightful territory, and in official proclamations and manifestoes has repeatedly threatened to make war upon us for the purpose of reconqucring Texas. In the mean time we have tried every efl'ort at reconciliation. 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 upon the American soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are now at war. As war exists----and, notwithstanding all our efTorts to avoid it, exists by the...
Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1909
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781342899002
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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