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Congress approved the annexation of Texas on March 2, 1845, two days before Polk’s inauguration. Mexico broke diplomatic relations and withdrew its ambassador from Washington. Once in office, President Polk secretly sent an envoy to Mexico to negotiate the peaceful annexation of Texas and proposed a division of the Oregon country with Britain. When Polk’s envoy to Mexico THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA 25 was rebuffed, Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor, who was at Corpus Christi with a small army, to occupy the disputed territory between the Nueces River, which Mexico regarded as her northern frontier, and the Rio Grande, farther south, which Anglo Texans claimed as the southern boundary of Texas.
Gage reviewed at considerable length the causes for the current state of affairs and the events of April 19, and then proffered an olive branch: “I avail myself of the last effort within the bounds 18 REPORTING THE WAR of my duty, to spare the effusion of blood,” he wrote. ” It is easy to imagine the general, quill in hand, reviewing his text with satisfaction and some pleasure before sending it off to be printed and posted about the town. A few days after issuing the proclamation, General Gage had chance to strike at the infatuated multitudes in a battle worthy of the name.
The lines between the Herald and the Tribune were drawn. ) Bennett and Greeley were already locked in a battle for circulation. In the Mexican War their editorial positions came to epitomize the opposing arguments in a national debate that continued throughout the conflict. THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA 31 While the newspapers were drawing their battle lines, Zachary Taylor was practicing the arts of war. 8 He captured Matamoros on the day that James Gordon Bennett published his grandiose vision of subduing Mexico by force of American arms and an infusion of good Yankee bloodlines.