bounties to the living—to entice people to imbrue their hands in blood—in infamy, '• If this war is unjust, gentlemen are not absolved by the cry of ' Mr. Polk's war.' The?/ voted for it. Declamation against Mr, Polk will not screen them from their own denunciations of the horror, the sin, and crime, and mur- der, of unjust war. If crime and infamy, the record bears conviction of the acto?'s upon its face, and there it will stand, indehble and imperishable, as the Republic itself It will adhere, like the shirt of Nessus, to its authors.
Like the garment Media v,-ove for Jason, it will cleave and burn into the flesh until they perish. Enhancing the crime, they only invoke more fearful punishment upon themselves."
Rarely, indeed, has any deliberative body listened to sarcasm so withering, or invective so powerful and so just.
Still the leaders of the Whig party in Congress clung with fearless tenacity to a policy which, although immoral, they believed to be advantageous. They continued through the whole existence of the war to denounce it