History of Ohio Covering the Periods of Indian French And British Dominion Th
History of Ohio Covering the Periods of Indian French And British Dominion Th
Rowland H Rerick
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Yet Ohio responded as generously as any state to the call of the president, and her soldiers did honorable duty. In 1845 Texas had been annexed with provi- sions that insured the extension of slavery over its territory. A small army of occupation, under Gen. Zachary Taylor, was advanced to the Rio Grande, a boundary which Mexico had not admitted for Texas, and in May, 1846, the Mexican forces crossed the river and attempted to drive away the American troops, bringing mi the battles of Palo Alto... and Resaca do la Palma. A bill for the support of war with Mexico was immediately intro- duced in Congress. Representatives Delano, Vance. Giddings, Root and Tilden, of Ohio, voted against it, and in the senate a memorable speech was made by Senator Corwin, who boldly declared that the prosecution of a war that excited hostility between the North and South was treason, a "crime of such infernal hue that every other in the catalogue of iniquity, when compared with it, whitens into vir- tue. " He declared that "if bell itself could yawn and vomit up the fiends that inhabit it- penal abodes to disturb the harmony of the world .
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