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The New Hampshire Gazette And Republican Union
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Opinion piece attributing the Mexican-American War's onset to Mexico, citing Daniel Webster's speech affirming Texas's independence and annexation legitimacy, and Mexico's intent to reconquer up to the Sabine River, not the Nueces.
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"I think, in fairness and honesty, we must admit that in 1840, '41, '42 and '43, Texas was an Independent State among the States of the earth. I do not admit, therefore, that it was any just ground of complaint on the part of Mexico, that the United States annexed Texas to themselves."
Keep it also in mind, that Mexico, in commencing hostilities against the United States, by her own act, did so with the avowed intention to over-run and re-conquer the whole of Texas, to the river Sabine which separates it from Louisiana. The Mexicans never named the Nueces as the boundary. They always have claimed, and do now claim, the Sabine as their northern line. The Nueces was an after-thought of their friends and allies in the United States—the Mexican federalists who give them "aid and comfort."
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Texas
Event Date
1840 1843
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mexico commenced hostilities to reconquer texas up to the sabine river
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Daniel Webster stated in his Springfield speech that Texas was independent from 1840 to 1843 and its annexation by the US was not a just complaint for Mexico. Mexico intended to overrun and reconquer all of Texas to the Sabine River, claiming it as their boundary, unlike the Nueces suggested by US allies.