FIFTY THOUSAND MEN, AND TEN MILLION VOTED FOR MEXICAN WAR

“In the two Houses of Congress on Monday, the discussion of the President’s Message was brief but animated.  The proposition to authorize the President to employ the land and naval forces of the United States, and volunteers to the number of 50,000, and appropriating ten million dollars for the service, passed the House 123 to 67.  The Senate referred it to committee, but no doubt it will pass.   John Quincy Adams took ground against the bill, and an amendment declaring war was voted down as not necessary; the acts of Mexico having created a state of war ….”   (Liberator, May 15, 1846, pg 3)

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