False, Abraham Lincoln had aggressively challenged the Polk's, casus belli and legitimacy or the justification for declaration of war against Mexico in 1846.
Abraham Lincoln, had produced a "eight spot resolution", in which he had tried to analyze the claims of Polk, in a very descriptive and detailed explanatory manner.
But the House, rejected the Lincoln's analysis, and Polk's argument that, the war was needed, stood strong against him.
A abolitionist who was totally agreed with the interpretation of Lincoln, was incarcerated in July 1846, imprisoned as he refused to pay the taxes as he believed that, the Mexican war was immoral.
That, abolitionist was, author of the book Civil Disobedience (1846), Henry David Thoreau, he documented his all over experience and the opposition in his book and about the injustice that he experienced.
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