Josiah Quincy said "It was a war, on the part of the United States, of conquest, and for the extension of slavery." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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It was a war, on the part of the United States, of conquest, and for the extension of slavery.

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Federalist · Massachusetts

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Quincy critiques the motivations behind the Mexican-American War, highlighting its connection to slavery.

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I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.

These have been, through life, perpetual admonitions to do nothing unworthy of it.

But circumstances will do more than any negotiation.

This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.

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