The Mexican War Essay Research Paper Against

The Mexican War Essay, Research Paper

Against The Mexican War

Through this essay Thomas Corwin is stating his opposition to President Polk.s

adamant propaganda of .manifest destiny.. Corwin points out that stealing Mexican land

would only create domestic desputes back in the United States between slave-holding

states and non save-holding states. Corwin states that the acquisition of new land would

lead to desputes about weather of not the new land should be deemed slave territory or

free territory and weather or not slavery would be permitted in its boarders. These

statements act as a eerie forecast of the disputes which will lay the plot for the Civil War

that comes two decades latter. Corwin, being a republican was greatly disturbed by the

fact that with the acquisition of new land would bring about the option of carrying the

immoral and inhumane act of slavery into the newly acquired territories. Corwin states that

a proclamation of war on Mexico would be a direct act of treason against the United

States. Because the offspring would lead to much civil conflict and further risk blood shed

on the domestic home front. Corwin expresses a sympathetic view of Mexico, by stating

that the land is just a part of Mexican heritage as Washington D.C. or New York is to the

United States. Corwin points out that it is the invasion of U.S. troops into Mexico which

has caused war, and proposes that a retreat of all U.S. troops stationed on the Mexican

borders would restore peace to out nation and prevent further blood shed over this

pretenses of war.

Rhetorical Devices:

Rhetorical Question: .Have you not room enough in your own county to bury your

dead..

Parallelisms: .But this same America goes into a sister republic, and says to poor, weak

Mexico, .Give up your territory, you are unworthy to possess it…. England might as

well, in the circumstances I have described, have come and demanded of us, .Give up the

Atlantic slope-give up this trifling territory from the Allegheny Mountains to the sea….

Ethos: .The senator from Michigan says he must have this (more land). Why, my worthy

Christian brother; on what principle of justice..

Pathos: Invokes a sense of pity on behalf of Mexico: .There I bled for liberty! and shall I

surrender that consecrated home of my affections to the Anglo-Saxon invaders. What do

they want with it. They have Texas already..

Logos: .Sir, look at this pretense of want of room. With twenty millions of people, you

have about one thousand millions of acres of land, inviting settlement by every conceivable

argument, bring them down to a quarter of a dollar an acre, and allowing every man to

squat where he pleases..

The Case for Public Schools

This essay is an attempt by Horace Mann to enlighten the public on the fact that

the lack of public education is one of the greatest problems faced by the country at that

time. Mann points out the fact that the uneducated will suffer oppression both in society

and by economic stand points from the educated. He also points out that public education

would be beneficent to society in that the education of more people would instigate the

architecture of new technological inventions as well as the formations of new thoughts and

ideas. He also states that a man.s intellectual ability will not be put to use if it is deprived

of the essential tool of education. Another belief Mann holds is that with out better public

education our nation would descend on a downward gradient towards total barbarism and

lack of social and economic improvements. Mann feels that the greatest of all economic

concerns with the country is the lack of wide-spread public education which would change

consumers into producers which in-turn would greatly improve the worldly economic

status of the United States. Mann holds the view that every man should have the

opportunity to create his own wealth and become financially prosperous, but without the

essential tool of education this great status of wealth would be unattainable to the

common man.

Rhetorical Devices:

Analogy: .Such fortunes would create a feudalism of a new kind; but one more

oppressive and unrelenting than that of the Middle Ages. The feudal lords in England, and

on the continent, never held their retainers in a more abject condition of servitude, than the

great majority of foreign manufacturers and capitalists hold their operatives and laborers at

the present day. The means employed are different, but the similarity in results is striking.

What force did then, money does now….

Metaphor: If a savage will learn how to swim, he can fasten a dozen pounds. weight to

his back and transport it across a narrow river. If he will invent an axe he can use a tree

form a float and one of its limbs for a paddle. Fastening several trees together, he makes a

raft and thus increases the buoyant power of his embryo water-cra

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