Horace Greeley, founder of the New York (City) Tribune, editorializes against the Mexican-American War:
We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands, and pursue them perhaps to their capital; we can conquer and “annex” their territory; but what then? Have the histories of the ruin of Greek and Roman liberty consequent on such extensions of empire by the sword no lesson for us? Who believes that a score of victories over Mexico, the “annexation” of half her provinces, will give us more Liberty, a purer Morality, a more prosperous Industry, than we now have? … Is not Life miserable enough, comes not Death soon enough, without resort to the hideous enginery of War?
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Article I of Amendment
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References:
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1980), 157.
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