"United mexican states" Quotes from Famous Books
... this an intention to conquer Texas, to re-establish that slavery which had been abolished by the United Mexican States? If that was the case, and we were to be drawn into an acknowledgment of their independence, and then, by that preliminary act, by that acknowledgment, if we were upon their application to admit Texas to become a part of the United States, then the House ought to be informed of it. I shall be ... — Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward |