History Minute (034): “We take nothing by conquest… Thank God.”

Despite the horrors and dishonorable acts of the U.S. in the war against Mexico, reported in earlier History Minutes …

Quoting Zinn, with emphasis added:

Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The Texas boundary was set at the Rio Grande; New Mexico and California were ceded. The United States paid Mexico $15 million, which led the Whig Intelligencer to conclude that "we take nothing by conquest. . . . Thank God."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

https://books.apple.com/book/id1046889377