Nicholas Trist
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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In a letter to Polk received six weeks after he wrote it, Trist explained, I place my determination on the ground of my conviction first, that peace is still the desire of my government.
Secondly, that if the present opportunity not be seized at once, all chance for making a treaty at all will be lost probably forever.
could those Mexicans have seen into my heart at that moment, they would have known that my feeling of shame as an American was far stronger than theirs could be.
My object throughout was not to obtain all I could, but on the contrary, to make the treaty as little exacting as possible from Mexico as was compatible with its being accepted at home.
In this, I was governed by two considerations.
One was the iniquity of the war as an abuse of power on our part.
The other was that the more disadvantageous the treaty was made to Mexico, the stronger would be the ground of opposition to it in the Mexican Congress by the party who had boasted of its power to frustrate any peace moves.
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