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Strong, William : Speech of Mr. Strong, of Pennsylvania, on the Mexican War. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 4, 1848

Printed by John T. Towers., Washington, D.C., 1848

Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. Text printed in black ink. 5 3/4" x 9." Sixteen pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact overall except for light age toning, a few faint spots of foxing or discoloration, some chipping and splitting along spine, and a few small wrinkles. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. A speech originally delivered before the United States House of Representatives on March 4, 1848 by William Strong (1808-1895), an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Strong served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1847-1851 and as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1870-1880. Strong began his political career as an abolitionist Democrat but later changed to the Republican Party. Strong begins his speech by opposing the accusation (forwarded mostly by the Whigs) that the Mexican-American War was "unnecessarily" and "unconstitutionally" commenced by President James K. Polk on the grounds that bringing up such a topic was not timely given that the war had just recently ended. He likens the pursuit of this accusation to denouncing an arsonist, however just it may be, instead of prudently putting the flames out of the burning building in the meantime. However, much of Strong's speech is tracing the origins of the Mexican-American War and whether the war was "just" or not. Strong references past correspondence by the Mexican Minister to the U.S., Juan Almonte, in which the latter expressly stated that Mexico would consider the annexation of Texas as a declaration of war by the U.S. Strong also references the conflicting political stances of Mexican Presidents Jose Joaquin de Herrera and Mariano Paredes on the subject of the Texas annexation. Strong explains more of his arguments with his main objects being to justify that U.S. had prosecuted a just war while Mexican had not, that Mexico had waited long enough to where its claim to Texas was questionable, and that the U.S. had a right to indemnity from Mexico.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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