At one time urging
the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign
interference, and even the good of Mexico herself as among the objects of
the war; at another telling us that "to reject indemnity, by refusing to
accept a cession of territory, would be to abandon all our just demands,
and to wage the war, bearing all its expenses, without a purpose or
definite object." So then this national honor, security of the future,
and everything but territorial indemnity may be considered the
no-purposes and indefinite objects of the war! But, having it now settled
that territorial indemnity is the only object, we are urged to seize, by
legislation here, all that he was content to take a few months ago, and
the whole province of Lower California to boot, and to still carry on the
war to take all we are fighting for, and still fight on. Again, the
President is resolved under all circumstances to have full territorial
indemnity for the expenses of the war; but he forgets to tell us how we
are to get the excess after those expenses shall have surpassed the value
of the whole of the Mexican territory. So again, he insists that the
separate national existence of Mexico shall be maintained; but he does
not tell us how this can be done, after we shall have taken all her
territory.
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