One P.O.V. on the War

The Mexican War has generally been condemned by American historians as a war forced upon Mexico by the South, greedy for a new slave state. Mexico had imprisoned U.S. citizens in and around Texas, lied to about our diplomatic attempts, could not control bandits and plunderers at its borders, and hostile tensions between the two countries were ever growing. President Jackson was quoted saying that Mexico's offenses "would justify in the eyes of all nations immediate war." Just because the U.S. is stronger than Mexico does not protect Mexico from its expansion. The moral controversy on conquest should not be an issue because Mexico was a result of conquest and gained those territories through conquest and the Texan War of Independence might have reminded them of their own War for Independence from Spain. Texas had already had independence for nine years and Mexico was about to accept that as long as it did not join the U.S. We tried a diplomatic resolution but it was rejected twice. We held off from taking Texas into the Union until Great Britain had persuaded Mexico to recognize the independence of Texas if it refused to join the United States. The moral question is not the war itself, but the annexation of Texas as a slave state. If the war with moral issue is not about harassing Mexico then is within the United States and the decision to accept Texas into the Union as a slave state. The original plan was for Texas to be an independent nation and even annexing Texas was just but the U.S. was in turmoil about slavery and that is where the United States made a terribly unjust and immoral decision.