indignant comments on " the extraordinary and highly offensive language which the Mexican Government has thought proper to employ." But although he thought the con- duct of Mexico "might well justify the United States in a resort to any measure to vindicate their national honor,"
he abstained, through a sincere desire to preserve peace, from recommending a resort to " measures of redress,"
and contented himself with urging " prompt and imme- diate action on the subject of annexation."