Speech of Mr. Corwin of Ohio, on the Mexican War: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 11, 1847J. & G. S. Gideon, 1847 - 16 pàgines |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Speech of Mr. Corwin of Ohio, on the Mexican War, Delivered in the Senate of ... Thomas Corwin Visualització de fragments - 1847 |
Speech of Mr. Corwin of Ohio, on the Mexican War. Delivered in the Senate of ... Thomas Corwin Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War: Delivered in the Senate ... Thomas Corwin Previsualització no disponible - 2015 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Alleghany Mountains Anglo-Saxon annexation armed army battle of Monterey blood boundary bury your dead California carry CASS Celt Chairman citizens command commander-in-chief Committee on Foreign Congress conquer a peace declared demanded Democracy desolating destiny dismemberment dominion duty Europe fact fear feel fight Foreign Relations fought give Government grant hear honorable peace humble invasion justice left bank liberty licked the stars look MATAMORAS Mexi Mexican Mexico military mind Minister Monterey nations Nueces patriotic possession President President of Mexico prosecute province question race reason refuse regiments renown represent Retributive justice Rio del Norte Rio Grande Rome Russia San Jacinto Senator from Michigan Senator from Missouri Senator from South Silas Wright slaughter South Carolina sovereign tell Terminus territory Texan thirty millions thousand tion treaty trial by jury truth of history twenty millions United wage want room wish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - What is the territory, Mr. President, which you propose to wrest from Mexico? It is consecrated to the heart of the Mexican by many a well-fought battle with his old Castilian master. His Bunker Hills, and Saratogas, and Yorktowns, are there! The Mexican can say, "There I bled for liberty! and shall I surrender that consecrated home of my affections to the Anglo-Saxon invaders? What do they want with it? They have Texas already. They have possessed themselves of the territory between the Nueces and...
Pàgina 12 - If I were a Mexican I would tell you, " Have you not room in your own country to bury your dead men ? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.
Pàgina 12 - Sir, he made quite as much of that sort of history as you ever will. Mr. President, do you remember the last chapter in that history? It is soon read. Oh! I wish we could but understand its moral. Ammon's son (so was Alexander named), after all his victories, died drunk in Babylon ! The vast empire he conquered to " get room," became the prey of the generals he had trained; it was disparted, torn to pieces, and so ended. Sir, there is a very significant appendix ; it is this : The descendants of...
Pàgina 15 - Macedonian madman," when he wandered with his Greeks to the plains of India, and fought a bloody battle on the very ground where recently England and the Sikhs engaged in strife for "room," was, no doubt, in quest of some California there.
Pàgina 11 - ... had won? No, no, none of this do we. But we send regiments, storm towns, and our colonels prate of liberty in the midst of the solitudes their ravages have made. They proclaim the empty forms of social compact to a people bleeding and maimed with wounds received in defending their hearthstones against the invasion of these very men who shoot them down, and then exhort them to be free. Your chaplains of the navy throw aside the New Testament and seize a bill of rights.