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It was 1846 and time for America to expand its reach to the Pacific shores as it flexed its muscle in a show of protecting its migrating citizens. One thing stood in the way; Mexico. “Manifest Destiny” would play out in the two-year struggle. Neighbors would fight to create a new border, north from south, along the Rio Grande, and west through untamed territories to become known as New Mexico and Arizona, finally reaching the coast of California.
This was a time of pioneers leaving the confines of Kansas and Missouri to explore the Oregon and California trails. Settlers, treasure seekers, and the greatest mass religious exodus in American history, the Mormons; all would cross untamed lands filled with peril, to settle in territory which would either stay with Mexico or become part of the United States.
It was a time when the Golden Age of the gentleman and ladies of southern plantations was soon to slip into nothing more than a memory, as talk of southern state secession inflamed passions. Strangely, the 1846-1848 war with Mexico would also become the factory giving junior military officers the experience in battle to produce the Generals opposing one another in the coming Civil War.
The Underground Railroad of abolitionists, questions of state’s rights, along with American empire building, all mixed together creating tensions which would only end with the Civil War of 1861-1865.
Read from the American players in a drama forging a developing nation into an east to west coast country, in PowerThink Publishing’s Mexican War and Slavery, Volume 7.
Included Works:
War Clouds Over Oregon by Thomas H. Benton
The Acquisition of California, Fremont's Successful Invasion by Thomas H. Benton
The American Alcalde at Monterey by Walter Colton
Reasons for the War with Mexico by James K. Polk
The Northwest Fur Trade by Captain William Sturgis
Wilmot Defends His Proviso by David Wilmot
A Contemporary Senatorial Opponent of the War by Thomas Corwin
The Capture of Chapultepec and Mexico City by General Winfield Scott
Grant in Mexico by Ulysses Simpson Grant
Peter Wilson on the Empire State by Peter Wilson
The Discovery of Gold in California by Walter Colton
Treaty with Mexico, 1848 by The U.S. and Mexican Governments
The Discovery of Gold in California by John S. Hittell
The Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention by Official report printed by John Dick
The Clay Compromise by Henry Clay
The Clay Compromise by Carl Schurz
Webster's Seventh of March Speech by James G. Blaine
Jenny Lind's Arrival and First Concert in New York by New York Tribune
Threat of Civil War by Daniel Webster
The Underground Railroad by Levi Coffin
Fugitive Slave Act by U.S. Congress
The Clay Compromise by Daniel Webster
The South and the Public Domain by Alexander H. Stephens
The Clay Compromise Measures by Calhoun
Bryants' Welcome to Kossuth by Bryant
Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech by Frances Gage
The Opening of the Crystal Palace in New York by New York Times
Eulogy of Webster by Rufus Choate
Vicissitudes of A Forty-Niner by Alonzo Delano
The First Treaty with Japan by M. C. Perry
Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Stephen A. Douglas
Civil War in Kansas by George Cary Eggleston
The Rise of the Republican Party by George Washington Julian
Commodore Perry Negotiates a Treaty with Japan by Reports and Correspondence Published by Order of Congress
Civil War in Kansas by Thomas H. Gladstone
The Crime Against Kansas by Sumner
Preston Brooks in Defense of His Attack on Sumner by Preston S. Brooks
Dred Scott Decision, 1857 by Roger Brooke Taney
The First Railroad to the Mississippi by William Prescott Smith
The First Atlantic Cable Laid, But is a Failure by Henry M. Field
Sewards' "Irrepressible Conflict Speech", 1858 by Seward
Lincoln on the First Debate with Douglas, 1858 by Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas in the First Debate with Lincoln, 1858 by Stephen Douglas
The Death and Burial of Washington Irving by Edmund Clarence Stedman
John Brown at Harper's Ferry by Horace Greeley
The Capture of John Brown by Robert E. Lee
Brown's Trial and Execution by Horace Greeley
John Brown's Last Speech and Letters by John Brown
John Brown's Speech to the Court at His Trial by John Brown
The Death of John Brown by Garrison
The Arrival of the Great Eastern in New York Harbor by New York Herald
The Visit of the Prince of Wales King Edward VII by New York Herald
Lincoln's "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" Speech, 1860 by Abraham Lincoln
How Lincoln Was Nominated by Murat Halstead
Threats of Secession by R. B. Rhett
Lincoln Making His Cabinet by Thurlow Weed
Yancy's Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention by Yancy
Bonus: Includes a FREE download of the book in electronic format for use with your computer or Mobile device.
Reviews:
“This is pure history, without all the filters of contemporary interpretation. These books will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who wants to better understand where America as come from--and where we should be now.”
-Jay A. Parry, author, The Real George Washington
My Father W. Cleon Skousen, author of The Five Thousand Year Leap, would call this must-have collection of original source documents nothing short of pure gold of the rarest kind. This resource would have spared him decades of clawing through untold stacks and volumes of materials during his research and writing years. He would have treasured these books for that very purpose, and joins me in highly recommending these volumes to scholars and casual readers alike; anyone looking for accurate answers to difficult questions about America, freedom, and our era of unprecedented prosperity.
-Paul Skousen, author, speaker, CIA analyst, and Reagan White House intelligence officer
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