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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for President at the last preceding election, then in private life, said that the preamble falsely attributed the commencement of the war to the act of Mexico; and added, no earthly consideration would have ever tempted or provoked me to vote for a bill with a palpable falsehood stamped on its face. Almost idolizing truth as I do, I never, never could have voted for that bill. Speech at Lexington. Ky., Nov. 13, 1847. National Intelligencer, November 25. Colton's Last Years of Henry Clay, p. 62. Corwin publicly expressed regret for his vote for it in the Senate. Speech at Carthage, Ohio, September, 1847, printed in Boston Whig, Oct. 7, 1847. The American Review, a magazine devoted to the defence of the principles of the Whig party, strongly condemned the action of the Whigs in voting for the bill. May, 1847, p. 435 (Charles King). The National Intelligencer, the national Whig organ at the capital, and more than any other journal of the time r