States to be added to this Union.  We know, every intelligent man knows, that there is no stronger desire in the breast of a Mexican citizen than to retain the territory which belongs to the republic.  We know that the Mexican people will part with it, if part they must, with regret, with pangs of sorrow.  That we know; we know it is all forced; and therefore, because we know it must be forced, because we know that (whether the government, which we consider our creature, do or do not agree to it) the Mexican people will never accede to the terms of this treaty but through the impulse of absolute necessity, and the impression made upon them by absolute and irresistible force, therefore we purpose to overwhelm them with another army.  We purpose to raise another army of ten thousand regulars and twenty thousand volunteers, and to pour them in and upon the Mexican people.

Now, Sir, I should be happy to agree, notwithstanding all this tocsin, and all this cry of all the Semproniuses in the land, that their “voices are still for war,”—­I should be happy to agree, and substantially I do agree, to the opinion of the Senator from South Carolina.  I think I have myself uttered the sentiment, within a fortnight, to the same effect, that, after all, the war with Mexico is substantially over, that there can be no more fighting.  In the present state of things, my opinion is that the people of this country will not sustain the war.  They will not go for its heavy expenses; they will not find any gratification in putting the bayonet to the throats of the Mexican people.  For my part, I hope the ten regiment bill will never become a law.  Three weeks ago I should have entertained that hope with the utmost confidence; events instruct me to abate my confidence.  I still hope it will not pass.

And here, I dare say, I shall be called by some a “Mexican Whig.”  The man who can stand up here and say that he hopes that what the administration projects, and the further prosecution of the war with Mexico requires, may not be carried into effect, must be an enemy to his country, or what gentlemen have considered the same thing, an enemy to the President of the United States, and to his administration and his party.  He is a Mexican.  Sir, I think very badly of the Mexican character, high and low, out and out; but names do not terrify me.  Besides, if I have suffered in this respect, if I have rendered myself subject to the reproaches of these stipendiary presses, these hired abusers of the motives of public men, I have the honor, on this occasion, to be in very respectable company.  In the reproachful sense of that term, I don’t know a greater Mexican in this body than the honorable Senator from Michigan, the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs.

     MR. CASS.  Will the gentleman be good enough to explain what sort of
     a Mexican I am?

On the resumption of the bill in the Senate the other day, the gentleman told us that its principal object was to frighten Mexico; it would touch his humanity too much to hurt her!  He would frighten her—­