What story did Polk tell the US Congress to motivate them to vote for war

 

 James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States who served from 1845 to 1849. He was also the Speaker of the House of Representatives and later became Governor of Tennessee during the year 1839-1841.

 After a negotiation fraught with risk of war Polk reached a settlement with Great Britain over the disputed Oregon Country which was the territory for the most part being divided along the 49th parallel. Polk achieved a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War which resulted in the cession by Mexico of nearly all the American Southwest.

Although Polk was an energetic and indefatigable war leader which he emerged partly through rare good luck with an interrupted success. He kept the sole direction of the war in his own hands from grand strategy to the procurement of mules. The true to his campaign pledge was to serve only one term but Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee where he died three months after leaving the White House.

• There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of before I became President of the U.S these were the words James K. Polk quote.
• On May 12 in the year 1846, United States Senate voted 40 to 2 to go to war with Mexico but President James K. Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil on north side of the Rio Grande. But Mexico claimed this land as its own territory and accused the American military of having invaded.

This was the story James Polk taught the congress;

•  James K. Polk, President of the United States of America, do proclaimed that he will specially enjoin on all persons holding offices civil or military under the authority of the United States that they be vigilant and zealous in discharging the duties respectively incident. He also exhorted all the good people of the United States as they love their country as they felt the wrongs which had forced on them that the last resort of injured nations whereby they did consult the best means under the blessing of Divine Providence by abridging its calamities. He also  exerted them in preserving order and promoting concord by maintaining the authority and the efficacy of the laws. He Supported them and invigorating all the measures which they adopted by the constituted authorities by obtaining a speedy and just also an honorable peace.
• James Polk words of favor during the war with Mexico although He did not want a war but he was willing to go to war if necessary in order to gain his objective of extending the US west to California and ending the dispute over the Texas border which Texas wanted Southern border extended to the Rio Grande.