Review of the Mexican War Embracing the Causes of the War the Responsibility
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Seventy years ago the Alleghanies were our western wall. There is no conquest like that of the plow. The spoils of battle pass away generally with its victors, sometimes with its victims. But when the civilized and civilizing emigrant plants himself in a new country, its destiny is, in most instances, fixed forever. The tree of civilization roots itself deep in the soil, and in its turn bears fruit, and scatters its seed be yond. The principle of democracy is the promi nent feature in. The char...acter of this race. It has become an element of thought in the minds of men. It is not possible that a state should arise on our western coasts, which would not be governed according to the will of its inhab itants. There is no one who has seen the broad river of emigration sweep away the forest and its kings, who can say that when it has flowed on to the shores of the Pacific, its waters will MEXICAN WAR. be less pure and fertilizing than they are to day. It is said, however, that without this war the United States might never have obtained pos session of that country, that even if it had be come a home of freedom, another nation might have arisen there.
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