Polk's Mexican War Message
Polk's Mexican War Message
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: THE existing state of the relations between the United States and Mexico…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Mexico
As the facts and opinions which were then laid before you were carefully considered, I cannot better express my present convictions of the…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Slidell
The Mexican minister, on the fifteenth of October, gave an affirmative answer to this inquiry, requesting, at the same time, that our naval…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Herrera
Mr. Slidell arrived at Vera Cruz on the 30th of November, and was courteously received by the authorities of that city. But the government…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Paredes
Five days after the date of Mr. Slidell's note, General Herrera yielded the government to General Paredes without a struggle, and on the…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Norte
In my message at the commencement of the present session, I informed you that upon the earnest appeal both of the Congress and convention…
Polk's Mexican War Message: Taylor
Anticipating the possibility of a crisis like that which has arrived, instructions were given in August last, "as a precautionary measure,"…