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Polk's Manifest Destiny set the stage for the Civil War


U.S. Grant called the Mexican War, “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

Polk, August 14, 1848, pressed for the right to expand slavery into the new territories: "But one such question can now be agitated in this country, and this may endanger our glorious Union, the source of our greatness and all our political blessings. This question is slavery. With the slaveholding States this does not embrace merely the rights of property, however valuable, but it ascends far higher, and involves the domestic peace and security of every family."

(In response to this post by Los Angeles Hoo)

Posted: 02/19/2024 at 09:31AM


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