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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
whoever contemplated a scene more absorbing "to him who had no friend or brother there," than the majestic mountains which looked down upon the lofty hills which encircled city, lake and plain in that ethereal sky where man, "enamored of distress," made echo responsive to echo, with the sulphurous din of the 19th and 20th of August, 1847
You are told these successes were achieved over a degenerate people. Were they ever wanting in spirit to resist invasion ? Do not the physical aspects of the higher lands of central and northern Mexico exhibit a conformation such as ever has been fertile in the production of a brave and liberty-loving population.
Freeing themselves from the conquerors, overthrowing a kingly government of their own erection, reforming their organic law in the interest of toleration and freedom, these things exhibit no degeneracy. If you felt not the
Stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel,
Mexican War
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