Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 02, 2022, 06:22:28 pm »Our enemies elaborate:
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/11/robert-w-merry-a-country-of-vast-designs-james-k-polk/
Hence:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/11/robert-w-merry-a-country-of-vast-designs-james-k-polk/
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as this book shows, there was a great deal of opposition to “Manifest Destiny.” OrdinaryAmericanswere thrilled at the idea of expansion, but many politicians were not. The Whig leader Henry Clay, for example, wanted to keep the American population east of the Rockies, and had no interest in settling Oregon. He was also afraid to absorb Texas: “Annexation and war with Mexico are identical.”
Daniel Webster, another Whig, called Polk’s war not just “a clear violation of duty” but “an impeachable offense.” He considered it an act of naked aggression for which there was no Constitutional authority, and led the fight not to vote funds for the war. He wanted no new, lightly inhabited territories far from Washington. The rising Whig politician Abraham Lincoln also condemned the war.
Hence:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/