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In that campaign, the great Whig argument against the election of Polk was, that it would bring on a war with Mexico for the extension of slavery, and when the war came, Whigs and Liberty Party men vied with each other in their cry of "Our Country, right or wrong!" and rushed into the army over every barrier set up by their late arguments.
It keeps me awake nights just to think of you over here alone. How long is the torture to go on?" Jane, I tried, but if I had frankly and courageously shown Polk Hayes what was in my heart for him at that moment, I couldn't have answered for the results. From the time I was eighteen until I was twenty the same sort of assault and battery had been handed out to me from him.
I suppose the sparkle in my heart showed in my eyes, for Polk sat up quickly and took notice of it very decidedly. "Wire especially impassioned?" he asked, with a smolder in his eyes. "Not especially." I answered serenely, "One of my friend's father is a director in the C. & G. and he is coming down with him for the conference over at Bolivar between the two roads next week."
"Oh, Pa, do you think you are safe here?" she cried. "Why, yes, honey, I reckon so," he answered. "Where's Clarence?" "Ned says he ran after a man who was hiding in an entrance. Pa, I am afraid they are watching the place." "I don't think so, Jinny. I came here with Polk, in his buggy, after dark." Virginia, listening, heard footsteps on the stairs, and seized her father's sleeve.
Overlooking my pertness he went on: "Mayor Shelby was at home with Mrs. Augusta for two hours after dinner and, as I came by the post-office, I heard him telling Polk in remarkably chastened, if not entirely chaste language, that it was 'better to let the women have their kick-up on a feeding proposition than on something worse, as he classically put it."
Bragg had come, too, but he left the command to Polk, who outranked Hardee, and the three together listened to the long-range cannonade, while they also examined with powerful glasses the Union army which was now mostly lying on the ground. Dick himself felt a strong temptation to sleep.
Polk was serious as usual; his indecisive features wearing the mask of solemnity, which with so many passed as wisdom. "I have come, Mr. Calhoun," said he when the latter had assured him that my presence would entail no risk to him "to talk over this Texas situation." "Very well," said my chief. "My own intentions regarding Texas are now of record." "Precisely," said Mr. Polk.
Next year a bill to give Polk $3,000,000 with which to settle the boundary dispute was introduced, and again the proviso was attached. But the Senate rejected it, and the House then gave way, and passed the bill without the proviso. Conquest of New Mexico and California.% While Taylor was winning victories in northeastern Mexico, Colonel Stephen W. Kearny was ordered to march into New Mexico.
Apparently they are craving nothing so much as emotional excitement and when you offer it to them they want to go to housekeeping with it. Love is a business with them and not an art." "Would you like to try a genuine friendship with one. Polk?" I asked, and again struck from the shoulder with my eyes. "Help! Not if you mean yourself, beautiful," he answered promptly and with fervor.
Emphasizing further the President's entire willingness to confer with leading Republicans, even those outside of official relationship, on March 27, 1919, Mr. Polk, Acting Secretary of State, dispatched to Secretary of State Lansing, for the President, proposed amendments offered by Mr. Root to the constitution of the League of Nations, involving the establishment of a Court of Justice.
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