 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...  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 1471850Full view - About this book
 | Allen Johnson - 1912 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | James Schouler - 1889 - 588 pages
...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 of Mexico herself."J... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne, Elbert Jay Benton - 1913 - 652 pages
...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 "--, ?^%^ii of the... | |
 | George Lockhart Rives - 1913 - 768 pages
...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... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 288 pages
...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 act of Mexico herself,... | |
 | 1916 - 484 pages
...informed Congress and the American people that "Mexico has1 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 opening of his Administration,... | |
 | Carl Russell Fish - 1915 - 570 pages
...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 . . . war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself."... | |
 | 1916 - 414 pages
...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 opening of his Administration,... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1918 - 382 pages
...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 opposition to the... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - 1919 - 728 pages
...Polk sent a war message to Congress declaring : " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." Congress promptly voted to enlist fifty thousand men for " the war which exists by the act of-ihe Republic... | |
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