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 …show more content…
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