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" 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... "
The Making of America - Page 46
by Robert Marion La Follette - 1904
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American History Told by Contemporaries..., Volume 4

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 pages
...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,...invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil. She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced, and that the two nations are...
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The History of North America: The growth of the nation, 1837 to 1860, by E.W ...

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1905 - 596 pages
...executive's knowledge when on May nth he sent his urgent message to Congress, in which he declared " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil," that a state of war existed and the legislative body should place at the disposal...
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History of the United States from 986 to 1905

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - History - 1905 - 692 pages
...Polk sent to Congress a special message, in which he declared that " now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil " ; and that, " as war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it,...
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The Growth of the Nation, 1837-1860, from the Beginning of Van Buren's ...

Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - United States - 1905 - 560 pages
...executive's knowledge when on May 11th he sent his urgent message to Congress, in which he declared " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil," that a state of war existed and the legislative body should place at the disposal...
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History of the United States from 986 to 1905

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William MacDonald - United States - 1905 - 704 pages
...Polk sent to Congress a special message, in which he declared that " now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil "; and that, " as war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists...
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The Conquest of the Southwest: The Story of a Great Spoliation : Illustrated

Cyrus Townsend Brady - History - 1905 - 352 pages
...course of the United States, he had the unblushing effrontery to declare that " after reiterated menaces Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States,...has invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil," 2 and further, that " war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid...
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The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 13

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 902 pages
...and, ignoring Mexico's reasonable claim to the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, asserted that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United...territory, and shed American blood upon American soil." Two days later Congress issued a formal declaration of war, and threw the onus of striking the first...
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American History and Government: A Text-book on the History and Civil ...

James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1906 - 620 pages
...announcing this reached Washington, Polk sent a special message to Congress (May 12, 1846), in which he said that " Mexico has passed the boundary of the United...territory and shed American blood upon American soil, and war exists, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, JAMES K. POLK. Mr. Polk was born in North...
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The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 13

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 902 pages
...and, ignoring Mexico's reasonable claim to the country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, asserted that "Mexi-co has passed the boundary of the United...territory, and shed American blood upon American soil." Two days later Con-gress issued a formal declaration of war, and threw the onus of striking the first...
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Westward Extension, 1841-1850

George Pierce Garrison - History - 1906 - 394 pages
...recommending a declaration of war. Now, in formulating the reasons for the declaration, he asserted that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United...invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil," 4 and with the unanimous concur1 House Exec. Docs., 30 Cong., 1 Sess., VII., No....
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