FREE ESSAY ON WHY WE SHOULD NOT FIGHT THE MEXICANS

WHY WE SHOULD NOT FIGHT THE MEXICANS

War with Mexico will destroy us yet. Fighting with them will set a burden on us as well as
on them. We are fighting with them for the say reason; England was fighting with us.
England fought us because we would not follow the laws that they passed, and we want to
fight the Mexicans because they don't want to give us the land that we want. In some way
you could call this being hypocritical. Annexing Texas was the dumbest mistake we ever
made; it will upset our balance of beliefs. Even though Mexico is our adversary, so was
England, what if one day we want to trade with Mexico. Do you think that they would want
to trade with us? No, we will become the country that pushed them down when they were
already weak enough as it is, and the War will terminate ever having Mexico as an ally/
If we fight Mexico then we are being hypocrites, of what we fought for when we went
against England. We are treating them as if they belong to us; they are there own
country. We are forcing them to give us something that is rightfully theirs. Mexico is a
weak country and we are a strong country. For example, in the Revolutionary War the odds
were against us, the British were strong and we were weak. They came into our territory
thinking they could push us over, but it turned out just the opposite. The same thing
could happen here, they outnumber us by far, but yet we are better skilled and trained.
But they have the same chance of winning as we do. If we win, what will become of us?
Will we turn into a greedy anarchy just as England, acting as a authoritarian that will
make War with anyone who steps in our way. We are a very strong country we don't need
more land, we are barely using up the land we have now. Instead of conquering we need to
focus on the things that we need most, like working on giving our less fortunate children
a better education, and fix up the working conditions.
The annexation of Texas is the dumbest decision congress has ever made. Sooner or later
the issue over whether it should be a free state or slave with come up. We have a balance
of thirteen free states and thirteen slave, and adding Texas in there will upset the
balance. Henry Clay said in his letter to the Editors of the National Intelligence that
"Annexation would be to proclaim to the world an insatiable and unquenchable thirst for
foreign conquest or acquisition of territory. For if today Texas be acquired to
strengthen one part of the confederacy, tomorrow Canada may be required to add strength
to another. Finally, the part of the confederacy which is now weakest, would find itself
still weaker from the impossibility of securing new territory for those peculiar
institutions (slavery) which it is charged with being desirous to extend...". Which means
that Texas could cause controversy within the US. As of now slavery cannot be mentioned
in Congress without men arguing, and starting a fight.
War will kill any future trade with Mexico. One day we are going to want something the
Mexicans have. Such as fruit, gold, or other raw materials, that we may want. Most likely
they will not want to give it to us. Are we going to fight with them over that? They have
every right to not trade with us. We show up in their country bullying them around.
In the end, we might go to war, we will force them to sell their land that they acquired
form their own revolution. Not only will it cause internal trouble for use. It will
weaken our already weak relationship between Mexico and us.
Bibliography
home.att.net Betsy Newmark Homepage
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/sitemap/sitemap.html
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-08.html
http://www.azteca.net/aztec/war/index.shtml