Capitolo 19
drawn in war with America, not because of fear but because of
important commercial relationships and also because of essential liking and
the admiration, despite antagonisms of surface you/he/she was not increased of value in
America. God Aberdeen indeed, and others in you look for government,
pleaded that the support of the Texan independence was perfectly in reality
in the harmony with the best affairs in the United States, from when it is able
you/he/she has minded toward the limitation of American slavery. It is in the matter
of the national power, they was comforted with prophecies that the
American union, now so inflated in ransom, it has to inevitably divide in two,
perhaps three, competitor's empires, an enslaved-holding in the South, free
nations in north and West.
The fate of Texas sealed, Britain definitely abandoned soon everybody
expansion American opposition unless you/he/she would be tried
toward north, prophesying nevertheless I win for the American madness. Mexico,
counting on past favours, and because of an acute controversy among the
United States and Great Britain on the territory of Oregon, expected
English help in its war of 1846 against America. But she was brusquely
it warned that such help would not have been given, and the dispute of Oregon was
established in the Anglo-Saxon way of legal and vigorous matter, it followed
from an equitable compromise. The Mexican war resulted in the acquisition of
California of the United States. British agents in this province of
Mexico and British admirals on the Pacific were warned for taking anybody
you pass active in opposition.
This way British policy, after the Texan annexation he/she didn't offer barrier to
American expansion, and very to the British relief the fear of the delay
of the American plans to Mexico and Central America it was not inclusive.
The United States was absorbed soon, as you/they had prophesied men of is British,
in inside conflict on the question if the of recent-acquired
territories should be enslaved or free.
The acquisition of the California lifted a new problem of rapid transit