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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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urce to its mouth; andwhile the Texans held Santa Anna prisoner, underduress of arms and the stronger pressure of hisown conscience, which assured him that hedeserved death as a murderer, he solemnly sanc-tioned, acknowledged, and ratified their independ-ence with whatever boundaries they chose toclaim; but the Bustamente administration lostno time in repudiating this treaty, and at oncerenewed the war, which had been carried on in afitful way ever since. But leaving out of view this special subject ofadmitted dispute, the Mexican Government hadwarned our own in suJB&ciently formal terms thatannexation could not be peacefully effected. WhenA. P. Upshur first began his negotiations withTexas, the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, ati^. ^^ his earliest rumors of what was afoot, addressed anote to Waddy Thompson, our Minister in Mexico,referring to the reported intention of Texas to seekadmission to the Union, and formally protestingagainst it as an aggression unprecedented in the
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HENKY CLAY. THE VH^I OF THE -J CAMPAIGN FOR CONGRESS 241 annals of the world, and adding if it be indispen- chap. xiv.sable for the Mexican nation to seek security forits rights at the expense of the disasters of war,it will call upon God, and rely on its own effortsfor the defense of its just cause. A little whilelater Greneral Almonte renewed this notification atWashington, saying in so many words that theannexation of Texas would terminate his mission,and that Mexico would declare war as soon as itreceived intimation of such an act. In June, 1845,Mr. Donelson, in charge of the American Legationin Mexico, assured the Secretary of State that warwas inevitable, though he adopted the fiction ofMr. Calhoun, that it was the result of the aboli-tionist intrigues of Great Britain, which he creditedwith the intention of depriving both Texas andthe United States of all claim to the countrybetween the Nueces and the Rio Grande. No one, therefore, doubted that war would fol-low, and it soon ca

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