elfare of the state was itself it’s highest law, that expansionism was necessary to states welfare, and the dismemberment of state was “ A normal resource of diplomacy.”( Weinberg pg.14)I see it as unfair and immoral the way the U.S. colonial elite saw Mexico at a weak point and unfairly and unfairly acted on it’s own expansionist interests, as it had done to others in the past. And as far as freedom the United States wanted to spread, they hoped to turn Texas into a slave state, so much for freedom. The whole rationale for their actions was in every way unfair, immoral, non-democratic. Only to the elites public interests, freedom rang. No matter who may fight, it is completely unfair, inhumane, and immoral, to pick a fight with the weaker as the colonial elite did throughout it’s history. First with the Indians then with the slaves, and now with its neighbor to the west to accommodate themselves.“the mere physical extent of the territory acquired is impressive enough, but the real astonishing thing is the range of ideas and moral doctrines that have been advanced in justification of this extension of the national domain at the expense of the other- and usually weaker peoples (Weinberg pg.x)Almost everything the colonial elite wrote, said, and did was hypocritical. They claimed democracy but were completely undemocratic. They wrote the declaration of independence which declared freedom, only relevant to whites. They were truly sickened by the fever they had caught earlier.WORKS CITEDA Peoples History Of The United States, ( Haward Zinn )Harper Collins Publishers 1980,1995Concise Study Guide To The American Frontier, (Klose, Nelson)University Of Nebraska Press 1964From Sea To Shining Sea, (Leckie, Robert)Harper Collins Publishers 1993Manifest Destiny, (Weinberg, Albert) John Hopkins Press 1935Mexicans At Arms, (Santoni, Pedro)Texas Christian University Press 1996...
