, 1860-05-26

me1lcan WaF--Extract from Liz
fs;1'' fsaS. Speech In consrea. July a7th,
But as General Tay1orjs, par excellence tile
hero Of the Mexican xpt; md Is yoG Democrats M
say we Wings hare Always opposed the war,
yput think it nusfbe verY awkward md embar.
rassinetor Us Is 70 for General Taylor. The
declaration that we hare always opposed The
War is true or false, according as one may IN
andetstand the term "opposi1g the war" If
stisutioualIy commenced By the President" be
opposing the war, then the Wings have very
generally opposed it. Whenever :,they have
spoken It all, they have said this; and they
naSe said 1t % what has appeared good reason
70 them. The marching an army into the
MIDST Of peaceful Mexican settlement, frigh ght-
ing crops, and other property to destruction, to
~yoo-Hasy appear perfectly amiahlar psaceful,
anproToking procedure; but It does not appear
80 to rs. SO to caa stch an dct, to rs appears
no other than naked; inpudent absurdity,
md We speak Of it aecotding1y. But il. when
ne var bad begun, and had become the cause
OF the country, the giving Of our money aud
our blood, in common viii yours. was support
OF the was, then it is not. true that we have al
Ways opposed the war- With few individual ex-
eepuons, ,you hare constantly had our votes
mere TOR all the necessary supplies And, more
fhan this, you have had the services. the blood,
a9d me lives Of our political brethren in every
and ne mature man-the humble and the dis
t,nguished, you hare had them. and in battle,
they hare endured, and fought, and fell With
you. Clay and Webster each gave son, never
to be returned. From the State Of my own
fg4sadence, besides other worthy but less known
wing names, We sent MARSHALL, Morrison, Baker
and hardin; they all fought, and one fell, and
in the fall Of that one. We lost oar best Wig
man. Sor were the Wings few in number, OF
!aggard in the day Of danger. In that fearful,
bloody, b!eash1ess struggle at Beuna Vista,
wnere each mans hard task was to beat back
h5e Toes Or die himself, Of the hre high officers
who persisted, four were Whigs.
ln speaking Of this, mean no odious COM
parlson between the lion-hearted Wings and
Democrats who fought there On other occa-
slons, and among the lower officers aud p1iEates
on that OCCASION doubt not the proportion
vas different 1wish to do justice to all- I
think Of all those brave men as Americans, in
whose proud fame, as an American. ! too have
share Many Of them, Wings and Democrats.
are my constituents and personal friends: and
thank them-oue all all, for the high imperish-
able honor they hare conferred on our common
But the distinction between the cause Of the
Pses'dent in beginning the war, and the cause
ot the country after il Has begun, is dist.no
Ion winch yoa cannot perceive, To you, the
fresldent, aud the country, seem 10 be all one.
You are interested to see no distinction be-
tween them and I venture to sugse.t that
possibly your interest blinds you little. We
see the distinction, as we think, clearly enough.
and onr friends who have foughtin The war have
no dtt1leulty in seeing it a'sr. .Wha. those who
have fallen would say. we're they alive and here,
OF course we can never know; but with those
who have returned there is uo difficulty, Col.
Haskell and Major Gaines, members here, both
fought ~ the war; and one of them underwent
extraordinary 81 Pefis and bardships; still they,
IKE al other Wings here, vote on the record
thai the war was UNNECESSARY and unconstitu.
t1oaallT commenced By the President. and
esea General Taylor himself, the noblest Roman
Of them al, has declared that, as citzap, and
particularly as soldier, it is sufficient for him
to kno" that bis country is ut war with q
foreign nation, to do all IN his power to bring
II It to speedy and honorable Termination, by
the most vigorous and energetic operations,
without iDaulsing about its justice, or anything
else connected with it.