The first, which can be singled out from his war letter, is the humiliating attitude of the Mexican Government towards the people of the United States. Polk claimed that he eagerly tried to establish new diplomatic relations with Mexico, but the Mexican party, refused to cooperate, and instead of setting a new cooperation between the countries, invaded the American territory, and filled it with the blood of the Americans (Polk’s war message, 153). Furthermore, in his war message, Polk stated that even after the refusal from the Mexican party, he kindly requested the minister of foreign affairs of Mexico to address the Mexican Government with an official proposal from the President of the United States to receive an envoy entrusted, which have made the Mexican party a complete master in the two-countries dispute over the border line. Polk made it visible that he wanted to proclaim the policy of peace till the …show more content…
He announced his real purpose to declare a war on Mexico soon after he had taken the solemn oath of the Presidential office. In this conversation, Polk outlined four great measures of his administration: one, a reduction of the tariff, another, the independent treasury, a third, the Oregon boundary issue settlement, and finally, the official acquisition of California (Private conversation between Polk and Bancroft, recalled by Bancroft to historian James Schouler, p. 141). This point of the war entailed California, even though Texas was a good reason to start a war. Polk new that his forces were prevailing over the enemy, and everything he needed was an unauthorized consent from the Mexico itself to declare a war on it. For example, in May, 1845, the fleet of four, or five vessels, arrived at Galveston with Hon. C.A. Wickliffe. This gentleman and his entourage had numerous interviews with Major Gen. Sherman, the chief officer of the Texas militia of Texas (Jones memoirs, p. 141). The result of these interviews was active preparations at Galveston for organizing volunteer forces, the supposed objective of which was an invasion of