The legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts condemns the Mexican-American War as “a war of conquest … so wanton, unjust, and unconstitutional in its origin and character, must be regarded as a war against freedom, against humanity, against justice, against the Union, against the Constitution, and against the Free States.”

       [restored 1/29/2022]

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 131.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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