Speech of Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, on the Mexican War Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 5, 1847 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, on the Mexican War: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 5, 1847

I regret the introduction of this subject. It is impossible to overlook the danger which it brings with it. Gentlemen belonging to the party in power insist, thfit this war shall be converted into a war of conquest that. Large and important States, stretching through several parallels of latitude, shall be torn from Mexico, and incorporated into our Confederacy; that peace shall be made upon no other terms, no matter how ample the remuneration tendered for past wrongs may be and that the territory thus acquired shall be made to increase the preponderance of one section of the Union, by legislating here in advance as to the character of the population which shall overspread it.

I take now the ground which I took 'before on the Oregon question. We have no right to say to the Executive department of the Government what shall be done in settling the terms of a treaty; and I therefore consider it highly improper to introduce such projects here as have been referred to.

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