Polks War Message
This document deals with the relations between Mexico and the United States. The Unites States government has tried to settle disputes with the Mexicans on boundary issues and relations but the Mexican government refuses to listen. They had come into American territory and killed our people causing worse tensions as well. On October 13, 1845 America sent an envoy to Mexico to try to adjust all the disputes but this did not work for they could not come up with an agreement. Pol went into great detail about the envoy like the removal of the Vera Cruz, and other internal problems. Polk then talks about how the Mexicans had been planning to invade and one spot of this was Texas so in order to try and limit this and not allow then to attack, soilders were line up along the border. When the Mexicans attacked a group of soldiers looking out for the Mexicans along the Nueces River of the Texas- Mexican border, Polk stated that he knew he must declare war and so this document was used to ask the Congress to allow this war to happen to enable Polk to end the war as quickly as possible to try to create peace with Mexico by creating a large army which is what he believed would bring it to the end fastest.
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