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The "Ever Growing Tide" of Americans invading Mexico!

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The  Ever Growing Tide  of Americans invading Mexico!
Bitterly anti-Texan pamphlet, "A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Annexation of Texas to the U.S.," by William E. Channing, Boston, 1837. Fifth ed. 4 1/4 x 8, 72 pp. Eloquent but savage discourse, siding with Mexico on Texas' annexation, asserting that the true American motives were land speculation and expansion of slave territory. "The subject of Texas weighs heavily on my mind, and I cannot shake it off...The Texan revolt...is criminal...The emigrants from this country to Texas went with open eyes, and full knowledge of the unsettled state of affairs, into this region of misrule and agitation...Some of the grounds on which the Texans justify their conflict for independence, are so glaringly deficient in truth and reason...The Texans must have been insane, if, on entering Mexico, they looked for an administration as faultness as that under which they had lived. They might with equal reason have planted themselves in Russia, and then have unfurled the banner of independence near the throne of the Czar...nothing less than the robbery of a realm...Can Mexico look without alarm on the approaches of this ever growing tide? Is she prepared to be a passive prey, to shrink and surrender without a struggle?...Have we counted the cost of...making perpetual these hostile relations with Mexico?..." Disbound segment; title page soiling and light waterstain, old orange pencil filing mark, very light edge toning of text, else internally fresh and very fine. Rader 654. Raines p. 48. Sabin 11912. Streeter Texas 1266.