Should The United States Go To War With Mexico?

Mexicans fought back against American invaders! Mexico had won their own freedom from Spain and could now settle freely in Texas. After about 15 years, Texas wanted to be part of the U.S. (after separating from Mexico), but Congress was scared about Mexico’s reaction to the annexation. Then the Americans started invading more of Mexico’s land. Did the United States have a good reason for going to war with Mexico? The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico for the following reasons: the Americans knew about their law for no slavery and still defied the law, the Americans claimed Texas and also influenced the war, and the Americans even dared to insult the entire country of Mexico.
The Americans knew about the anti-slavery law and still defied that law. Texas opens up its border to the United States, the Americans come in with the knowledge of that law, and they break the law over and over again. “ Slaveholders crossed the Sabine [the river between Louisiana and Texas] with their slaves, in defiance of the Mexican ordinance of Freedom.”. They had already made it illegal, and the Americans just didn’t care. Other people think they had the right to
Americans weren’t following laws and they started to get rebellious. The American newspapers were putting territorial remarks that would get American people even more angry, “Our newspapers excited the lust of territorial robbery,”. These papers and statements were trying to anger the Americans, by feeding their greed of land, and money. With this influence in the public’s minds, they made people angry and wanting to fight against the Mexicans. They were even taunting the Mexicans with the accepting of Texas, “ Texas is now ours….”, as if they won a trophy. This angered the Mexicans, thus influencing the war even more, especially with their insults. (Charles Sumner: Objections to the Mexican-American War, John O’Sullivan and Manifest