A sermon of the Mexican War

An anti-war and anti-slavery sermon that condemned President James A. Polk for the hasty annexation of Texas territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers and criticized the large cost in money and men for the resulting 2-year Mexican War. The sermon also condemned the use of the newly annexed territory to extend slavery and calls for an end to slavery throughout the union. Acquisition of territory in the Southwest heightened the crisis over slavery in slave states and new frontiers eventually leading to the Civil War