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Today, 1848, Frederick Douglas wrote in his abolitionist newspaper The North Star in Rochester, New York the case against the U.S. war on Mexico. Said Douglass: "Our nation seems resolved to rush on in her wicked career, though the road be ditched with human blood, and paved with human skulls. Well, be it so." Douglass was not alone in the condemnation. Lincoln, a first term Congressman at the time, criticized it as did Ulysses Grant, who fought in the war's major battles. Grant stated the following in 1879: "I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico." When it was all said and done, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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