[31] "Personal Memoirs," U. S. Grant. New York, Century, 1895, vol. I, pp. 115 and 32.
[32] "Historical Register of the United States Army," F. B. Heitman. Washington, Govt. Print., vol. 2, p. 282.
[33] "The Story of New Mexico," Horatio O. Ladd. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1891, p. 333.
[34] "The Winning of the West," Theodore Roosevelt. Vol. I, p. 26, 27, and Vol. II, p. 370.
VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF WORLD DOMINION
1. The Shifting of Control
During the half century that intervened between the War of 1812 and the Civil War of 1861 the policy of the United States government was decided largely by men who came from south of the Mason and Dixon line. The Southern whites,—class-conscious rulers with an institution (slavery) to defend,—acted like any other ruling class under similar circumstances. They favored Southward expansion which meant more territory in which slavery might be established.
The Southerners were looking for a place in the sun where slavery, as an institution, might flourish for the profit and power of the slave-holding class. Their most effective move in this direction was the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of territory following the Mexican War. An insistent drive for the annexation of Cuba was cut short by the Civil War.