The American's Own Book

The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

Polk's Mexican War Message

7 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

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,"…

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