Saturday, November 13, 1847.Lexington, KY. | Henry Clay speaks on Mexican War, denouncing it as war of aggression.
Meeting adopts resolutions declaring hostilities occasioned by Taylor's army advancing
into territory under jurisdiction of Mexico. Lincoln undoubtedly attends. William H. Townsend, Lincoln and
His Wife's Home Town (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929),
152-55. |