The Nation's Loss : a Discourse Upon the Life, Services, And Death of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States
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"Jiesolved, That if it be necessary to the preservation of the lives of our seamen, repairs, safety, or maintenance of our ves- sels of war, to improve a harbor or inlet, either on our Atlantic or Lake coast, Congress has the power to make such improve- ment." These resolutions, the very essence of wise states- manship, were laid upon the table, Mr. Lincoln voting for them. The next day Mr. Giddings presented a memorial from certain persons in the District of Columbia, ask- ing Congress to repe...al all laws upholding the slave, trade in the District. Mr. Giddings moved to refer the memorial to the Judiciary Committee, with instruc- 12 . THE NATION'S LOSS. tions to inquire into the constitutionality of all laws by which slaves are held as property in the District of Columbia. Mr. Lincoln voted for the resolution. The Mexican Wae. Mr. Lincoln was opposed to the Mexican War from principle — opposed to the declaration of war against Mexico by the President of the United States, and on December 22, 1847, he introduced an elaborate yet concise j^reamble and set of resolutions of inquiry, crit- icising the Messages of President Polk, and throwing the responsibility for the first aggressions upon the administration, for sending a hostile force across the boundary-line in opposition to the advice of General Taylor, who said to the President : " That, in his opin ion, no such movement was necessary to the defense or protection of Texas." The war was a Democratic war ; but, nevertheless, after the President had com- menced the war, a Whig House of Kepresentatives, by a vote of 192 to 14, voted sixteen million dollars for supplies, Mr.
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