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"fighting For Peace."

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
November
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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It has long: boen said that we were figliting tlie Mexicans for peaco. But how long we are to fight for peace does nof appenr. The N. Y. Evangelist 9ays, "Mexico hns offered the' United States four hundred and twenty ílioussnd square miles, of her térritory, f ffte United Slates will witlidraw her invading annies, nnd put a stop to these sanguinnry cowflicts. Our Government, fhrough its instructedngent, refuses the'se terms and" demands more land. - Ánd now the carnage is renewed, and the fields of Mexico areogain crimsoned wilh )lood, an'd deformed by the mangled bodes of the slain. The State of New Yor ompiise8 foi'iy-six thousand square miles. Mexico offers us territory óijnal to nine Stafes of New York, if we will consent a peace; nnd we refuse. We detnand Vastly more. Can it longer be said we are fighting for Peacs ?

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Signal of Liberty
Old News