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; Rapid Transit WMATA Red.svg WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Orange.svg WMATA Yellow.svg WMATA Green.svg WMATA Silver.svg, President Polk reprised these arguments in his Third Annual Message to Congress on December 7 1847. He scrupulously detailed his administration's position on the origins of the conflict the measures the U.S had taken to avoid hostilities and the justification for declaring war He also elaborated upon the many outstanding financial claims by American citizens against Mexico and argued that in view of the country's insolvency the cession of some large portion of its northern territories was the only indemnity realistically available as compensation This helped to rally congressional Democrats to his side ensuring passage of his war measures and bolstering support for the war in the U.S, The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson shared Grant's view; towards the end of the war he wrote: "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us.".

Lindert and Williamson argue that this antebellum period is exemplary of what economists Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson and James A Robinson call "a reversal of fortune". Economist Thomas Sowell in his essay "The Real History of Slavery," confirms the observation made by de Tocqueville by comparing slavery in the United States to slavery in Brazil He notes that slave societies reflected similar economic trends in those and other parts of the world suggesting that the trend Lindert and Williamson identify may have continued until the American Civil War:. Hospitals in the Washington area became significant providers of medical services to wounded soldiers needing long-term care after being transported to the city from the front lines over the Long Bridge or by steamboat at the Wharf. Following reinforcement Lt Col Henry S Burton marched out His forces rescued captured Americans captured Pineda and on March 31 defeated and dispersed remaining Mexican forces at the Skirmish of Todos Santos unaware that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had been signed in February 1848 and a truce agreed to on March 6 When the U.S garrisons were evacuated to Monterey following the treaty ratification many Mexicans went with them: those who had supported the U.S cause and had thought Lower California would also be annexed along with Upper California.