Dear Brother: Yours of the 3d is received. The speech of
Mr. Corwin, to which you refer, was made in the United States Senate on the
11th of February, 1847, on the Mexican War. It is a very long speech, and is to
be found on pages 211-218. Enclosed is the extract you refer to:
"If
I were a Mexican I would tell you, 'Have you no room in our own country to bury
your dead men?' If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and
welcome you to hospitable graves." . . . .
The speech of
Corwin's is worth reading through, as it gives fully his idea of the injustice
of the war with Mexico, which I think was shared by the great body of
intelligent people in the North, but was opposed by the cry "Our country,
right or wrong!" which perhaps after war commences is the best public
policy. . . .
SOURCE: Rachel
Sherman Thorndike, Editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between
General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, p. 371-2
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