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SORTE: William H. Gram Latest Prom the Army Yankee Doodle Magazine Nov. 26, 1846.
Note: A letter from a soldier who has one to fight in the US, Mexican War

Dear Father
What could have possessed you to send me way off here? Your notion of military glorywe
altogether to exalted (hig). Yet it was natural to you, that had fought in the Revolutionary and late
wars to entertain a big opinion of battle. As for me I detestit thought it would be rare Sport to
march to Mexico Visions sunny skies and tropical fruits, of rare and illustrious beauties, and of
"reveling in the balls of the Montezuma's danced before my mind if you will not be offended, 1
will whisper in your ear my private opinion of war in general, end of this Mexican war in particular.
Well then, it's a stupendoushumbugt ut for the string music and fine dresses, it would pass
for just the same as other butchery. There is no fun in cutting throats. I've tried it. The other day,
directed several of my fellow creatures in the most approved military style but do you think it was
pleasant to see their bowels gush out, and hear their cries of spony? Even iny platoon, a set of
rough looking fellows as you ever saw, looked then as if they had been sick
it's no use to read the Bible in the midst of words and beyonets. Somehow or another feel
all the time that what I am reading and what I am doing are very different things. ither I am, ar that
book is wrong. How can I pray for those that I mean to kill them next minuter... If the Mexicans are
made of the same blood" with myself, what right have to spillit Cant love my enemies," and
keep shooting at them all the white Beades, if I were to do to the Mexicans as I would have them
da to me, I should let them alone

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According to this document was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico ?

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1. The central idea of this document is that the Mexican war was not justified. This can be seen in the last sentence by the speaker, "if I were to do to the Mexicans as I would have them do to me, I should let them alone". The young soldier in this text apparently battles with his conscience because of the people he had to kill during the war.

2. No, the United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico. In this passage the soldier seems unsettled with the idea of going to war. He does not find the idea reconcilable with what he read in the scriptures. He questioned the person that sent him to war and even mentioned that if the golden rule was to be followed, he had no business killing the Mexicans.

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