The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-29
Mexican Issues in
 Political Campaigns ss of United States

'1mp0rtant a part in the present poli- If<6al .campaign in the United States, k&axe before this made and unmade 6resldents- tAImost from the begfn- ininG df the Mexican Republic up to X fthe period of the war with Mexico the relations between the neigh boring netions were often strained. James k VI Polk vas elected to the presidency jakxely because Of his stand on the +.6uestion of tho Annexation of Texas. 3Rhlch was claimed by Mexico. The
 fHiGh was the dArtstanding fea- X {y7fS S1S hls SdministTa was uHpop- |nfhr In many sections of the North, 5And the WhigN partisans manifested 11ight enfhustasm over the victories K Nchieved by American arms. The mill ( }itary, record made by Gen. Zachary \ IAYIor In tho conflict with Mexico was
 S6{SIy .responsible for his election to cliffWhite House Although the Unit H tG4 8tates annexed a vast area of Mex Z zc1 territory following the struggle,
 Si5(hy people were dissatisfied and q number of political and semi-political Ner E&nizatiops, notably the Knights of !. :tk6 Golden Circle, plotted the extinc- <i6u 6f the Mexican Republic and the \ ennetation of the whole country by the Emitted States.
 Opposition to the Mexican war was pertfAlly responsible for the eclipse of
 the political ambitions of one of the ablest statesmen and orators of that period. Senator Thomas Corwin, whose famous speech in the Senate de-
 nouncing the war ranks among the
 masterpieces of American eloquerfce.
 Cofwin was born in Bourbon county, W KY, just 122 years agd. July 29. 17s4.
 but removed to Ohio, and was gover-
 nor of the Buckeye State before his N election to the United States Senate { Although he was Afterwards Secretary [ Of the Treasury under Fillmore and minister to Mezfco under Lincoln, he z suffered greatly in popularity because ,- of his stand against the Mexican war. [ He was denounced as lacking in patrio- E tieIns and, although he had previously been widely mentioned for the presi- Eldency, his expedition to the war ruin- a his chances in that direction.
 His speech. which was long recited by schoolboys and was translated into many, tongues, is not without signifi- cance at the present time, and is
 worthy of repetition. Tn part he
 naid:
 nave dH Am6TlcdH ScHdte duu
 House of Representatives nothing tc do but to obey the bidding of the .S President, as the mercenary army he
 penalty of death? No! your Senate and House of Representatives were never elected for such purposes al that They have been modelled on tho rood old plan of English liberty, and t.I< XnI <x~ Eyv,rx Ifot EHouse of Commons. who .curbed thu
 proud power of the King in older Hines, by withholding supplies if the, did not approve the war. =
 "Tt was on this very proposition O. |Jedntrolling the executive power O England by withholding the none. |fGtfpplies that the House of, Orang' Z led1ne in; and by their accession t,
 |11& throne commenced a new epocl
 fnfthe history of England; distin
 edlshing it from the old reign of tn, {Tudors and Plantagenets and tbos, a&ho preceded 1t. Then it was tha
 lPUbllament specified the purpose O
 taDpropriation, and since 1888 1t ha
 ibten impossible for a king of Englan. dtd involve the people of England il n qtar, which your president, unde IyN9f republican Institutions, has ye
 nAnased to do. He involves you
 leountry in a wasteful and exterminat
 l1nx war against a nation with whon
 We have no cause of complaint, bu
 Congress may say nothingI VI
 ss'Mr. President, this uneasy desir
 lfo augment our territory has deprav Ied the moral sense and biunked thu " ~tot4erwtse keen sagacity of our peo 2 Ep1a What has been the fate of al
 lpe4ions who have acted upon the ide V if4At they must advance2 Our youn
 1og9eorB chsrishl fhis notion with fer
 Iv4 but totally mistaken zeal. The
 le43l it bH thu nystsri0us name 10
 Gatinysv z" sOHr destiny they say ! I11 onward, and hence they argue H{fA gsndy sophlstry the propriety Q
 {118 nDon any territory and an