Westward Extension, 1841-1850A vivid portrait of a turbulent & crowded decade. Although the emphasis is on expansion, the book is largely a history of the U.S. during the years covered. Also discussed are party struggle & the domestic problems of the Tyler & Polk administrations. Illus. |
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... prevent it from affording a complete check to the sectionalization that was arraying the North and South against each other . The western population was by no means com- pletely fused into a single mass with common aims and sympathies ...
... prevent it from affording a complete check to the sectionalization that was arraying the North and South against each other . The western population was by no means com- pletely fused into a single mass with common aims and sympathies ...
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... preventing colonists from bringing their slaves with them . The national constitution of Mexico adopted in 1824 and continuing in force up to the time of the Texas revolution contained no provision on the subject ; but the constitution ...
... preventing colonists from bringing their slaves with them . The national constitution of Mexico adopted in 1824 and continuing in force up to the time of the Texas revolution contained no provision on the subject ; but the constitution ...
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... prevent his nomination , and the convention finally declared by a unanimous vote that it was inexpedient to make a nomination for vice - president . " There was a third convention , but its proceedings were unimportant except as a ...
... prevent his nomination , and the convention finally declared by a unanimous vote that it was inexpedient to make a nomination for vice - president . " There was a third convention , but its proceedings were unimportant except as a ...
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... prevented the organization of any effective invasion of Canada ; but there was strong local sympathy in Vermont , New York , and Michigan for the Canadian insur- gents , which manifested itself in efforts to aid them , including the ...
... prevented the organization of any effective invasion of Canada ; but there was strong local sympathy in Vermont , New York , and Michigan for the Canadian insur- gents , which manifested itself in efforts to aid them , including the ...
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... prevent it from conforming to the description in the treaty.1 The British claim that " highlands " must mean high lands was a quibble ; the word signifies no more than " divide " or " watershed " ; and as to the real place of the ...
... prevent it from conforming to the description in the treaty.1 The British claim that " highlands " must mean high lands was a quibble ; the word signifies no more than " divide " or " watershed " ; and as to the real place of the ...
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Page 211 - ... it should be distinctly announced to the world as our settled policy that no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established on any part of the North American continent.
Page 204 - 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.
Page 324 - But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.
Page 322 - MR. PRESIDENT, — I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States.
Page 79 - States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of the said Commissioners to some friendly Sovereign or State to be then named for that purpose, and who shall be requested to decide on the differences which may be stated in the said report or reports or upon the report of one Commissioner together with the grounds upon which the other Commissioner shall have refused declined or omitted to act as the case may be.
Page 322 - The North has only to will it to accomplish it— to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled— to cease the agitation of the slave question...
Page 324 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Page 107 - ... beginning at the mouth of the Sabine river, and running west along the Gulf of Mexico three leagues from land, to the mouth of the Rio Grande, thence up the principal stream of said river to its source, thence due north to the forty-second degree of north latitude, thence along the boundary line as defined in the treaty between the United States and Spain, to the beginning...
Page 145 - A controlling majority of the people and a large majority of the States have declared in favor of immediate annexation. Instructions have thus come up to both branches of Congress from their respective constituents in terms the most emphatic. It is the will of both the people and the States that Texas shall be annexed to the Union promptly and immediately.
Page 315 - By awaiting their action, all causes of uneasiness may be avoided, and confidence and kind feeling preserved. With a view of maintaining the harmony and tranquillity so dear to all, we should abstain from the introduction of those exciting topics of a sectional character which have hitherto produced painful apprehensions in the public mind ; and I repeat the solemn warning of the first and most illustrious of my predecessors, against furnishing "any ground for characterizing parties by geographical...