Jackson,
of making a new confederacy in the Southwest. Jackson said:

"I hate the Dons, and I would like to see Mexico dismembered; but
before I would see one State of this Union severed from the rest, I
would die in the last ditch."

That was Jackson's Democracy. Douglass said:

"This is no time for delay. The existence of a conspiracy is now
known; armies are raised to accomplish it. There can be but two
sides to the question. A man must be either for the United States
or against the United States. There can be no neutrals in this
war--only patriots and traitors."

There is the Douglass doctrine. But I need not go back to Jackson
and Douglass. I have the opinions of the very gentlemen who now
lead the peace party on this subject. Let me read you a resolution,
introduced and passed through a Democratic convention, in 1848, by
Clement L. Vallandigham:

"_Resolved_, That whatever opinions might have been entertained of
the origin, necessity or justice, by the Tories of the
revolutionary war, by the Federalists of the late war with England,
or by the Whigs and Abolitionists of the present war with Mexico,
the fact of their country being engaged in such a war ought to have
been sufficient for them and to have precluded debate on that
subject till a successful termination of the war, and that in the
meantime the patriot could have experienced no difficulty in
recognizing his place on the side of his country, and could never
have been induced to yield either physical or moral aid to the
enemy."

I will quote also from Judge Thurman himself. In a speech lecturing
one of his colleagues, who thought the Mexican war was unnecessary,
he says:

"It is a strange way to support one's country, right or wrong, to
declare after war has begun, when it exists both in law and in
fact, that the war is aggressive, unholy, unrighteous, and damnable
on the part of the government of that country, and on that
government rests its responsibility and its wrongfulness. It is a
strange way to support one's country right or wrong in a war, to
tax one's imagination to the utmost to depict the disastrous
consequences of the contest; to dwell on what it has already cost
and what it will cost in future; to depict her troops prostrated by
disease and dy