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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
Hall, beneath the images of our fathers, vow ourselves to perpetual allegiance to the Right—and to perpetual hostility to slavery. Ours is a noble cause; nobler even than that of our fathers, inasmuch as it is more exalted to struggle for the freedom of others than for our own. The love of Right, which is the animating impulse of our movement, is higher even than the love of Freedom. But Right, Freedom, and Humanity all concur in demanding the abolition of slavery. VI. On the 11th of May, 1846, a resolution was passed by both Houses of Congress, that By the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that government and the United States, and the President was authorized to raise fifty thousand volunteers, when two days later, ten millions of dollars were appropriated towards carrying on the contest. It had been plain enough, after a joint resolution for the admission of Texas as a State into the Union, a collision with Mexico had become inevitable. It was
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., VI. (search)
VI. On the 11th of May, 1846, a resolution was passed by both Houses of Congress, that By the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that government and the United States, and the President was authorized to raise fifty thousand volunteers, when two days later, ten millions of dollars were appropriated towards carrying on the contest. It had been plain enough, after a joint resolution for the admission of Texas as a State into the Union, a collision with Mexico had become inevitable. It was alleged that no blame could be attached to the United States, for the war which followed, for several reasons; first of all, after Santa Anna, the dictator of Mexico, had been captured on the field of San Jacinto, he had recognized the independence of Texas, after which she could decide her political alliances and relations; second, that ever since the establishment of the Republic of Mexico, in 1824, she had been an unjust and injurious neighbor—that her treasury was r