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nydus/A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican WarPublic

William Jay examines the causes and consequences of the Mexican War through the lens of scriptural authority and Christian ethics. The author critiques the public conduct of political figures and argues against the national glorification of military conflict.

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other motives than " self-defence" against the anti- slavery policy of Great Britain, as manifested in that Republic. So early as the 2Yth May, 1836, imme- diately after the rumor of the battle of San Jacinto, and even before the official account of the victory had reached Washington, and while Great Britain was wholly ignorant of the existence of such a Republic as Texas, Mr. Calhoun, in his place in the Senate, proposed the recognition of the Independence of Texas, and her immediate admission into the Union ! ! In his speech on the occasion, he remarked, " There were powerful rea- sons why Texas should be a part of this Union. The southern States, owning a slave population, were deeply interested in ^^n'venting that country from having thepower to annoy themy* A revolted province was in actual war with the parent country, and, while the slain in the last battle were still unbuiied, this champion of slavery pro- poses the instant incorporation of this province into the Union for the benefit of the slaveholders—utterly reckless of the wickedness of the act, trampling under foot the obligations of neutrality, and regardless of the calamities of war which such a measure would inevitably inflict upon ois country.

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