James K. Polk
speaker
13 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
James K. Polk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The fate of Houston must have surprised you.
His conduct, to say the least, was very strange, and charity requires us to place it to the account of insanity.
I have always looked upon him as a man of weak and unsettled mind.
Former President John Quincy Adams, the old anti-slavery warrior, called it... The heaviest calamity that ever befell myself and my country.
In his May 11th war message to Congress, he said, The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier.
Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil.
She has proclaimed that hostilities have commenced and that the two nations are now at war.
Polk exploded, venting in his diary.
His dispatch is arrogant, impudent, and very insulting to his government, and even personally insulting to the president.
I have never in my life felt so indignant.
If there was any legal provision for his punishment, he ought to be severely handled.
He has acted worse than any man in the public employ whom I have ever known.
His dispatch proves that he is destitute of honor or principle, and that he has proved himself to be a very base man.
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