The Conquest of the Southwest

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Excerpt from The Conquest of the Southwest: A Discussion of the Charges That the Colonization of Texas and the Revolution Against Mexico Were the Results of a Movement of the "Slavocracy" To Increase Slave TerritoryFew periods in American history are so re plete with problems, [contested questions and dif ficult adjustments as that which extends from 1841 to 1849. The period may fairly be said to constitute an epoch quite distinct from the Jacksonian era, which preceded it, and the ante bellum period, which followed. It would be mis leading to state that this epoch presented for solution problems altogether novel. The prob lems for the most part were as Old as the nation. It was the method which was new. The ques tions which dominated the foreign policy were mainly those of boundary, dating from the first treaty of peace with England. Three boundary questions were settled during this period: the northeastern and northwestern through negotia tion, the southwestern by conquest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.