as unjust, wicked, and unconstitutional, but nevertheless evinced their patriotism, by voting the supplies required by the President for ensuring a criminal triumph. It is, how- ever, due to the party at large to acknowledge, that its submission, especially at the North, to this policy of its leaders, was partial and reluctant. The American Hgview, a very able journal devoted to the interests of the party, thus honorably confessed and condemned the motiv^es which actuated the Whig members of Congress who voted for the war : " The vote for fifty thousand volunteers and ten millions of dollars was all but unanimous. The reso- lution asking for these means were preceded by a lying preamble, which imputed the war to the act of Mexico.
The resolution, preamble and all, was eagerly swallowed.
So much more solicitous seemed even the Whigs about 2:)ersonal 'popularity, which might be jeoparded by what would be represented as an abandonment of the cause of a gallant but beleaguered army, in refusing or delaying to vote for this bill, than for the cause of truth and right."