Mr.. CorWin.
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No man has been so vilely traduced, or SO
wilfully and malciously misrepresented as has
this favorite son of Ohio. While the Admin
istration papers have never dared to publish
his speech, they have ascrbed to him senti-
ments directly contrary to those he advanced.
They have stopped at nothing that they
thought calculated to blacken the name of one
who has shown himself lover of his coun-
trys true glory


Mr. Corwin, in a letter to the editor of the
Springfield (Ill.) Journal, exposes some of
these misrepresentation, and defines his posi-
ton. He says that he contends that the war
is unjust on our part, and that he has, for his
support in this assertion, the authority of Ben
ton, Calhoun, and also of the late Silas
Wright He says, as Congress is the only
power capable of declaring war, according to
the constitution, it must have the power to
end it; that as he can see no good results to
come from further aggressive measures, he
would grant no supplies to carry on such mea-
sures. He says, at the conclusion of his let
ter:


O. am sometimes charged with wishing to
'starve the soldiers in the field Is there any
one so ignorant as not to know, that the sup
plies asked for last winter, were not to feed
the troops in Mexico or to sustain them on the
return, but to equip and furnish the men, who
have been fighting under Scott, in campa ign
not begun till after Congress adjourned. l
repeatedly asked of those favorable to the
war, to bring in bill to support Taylor army
then at Monterey, holding (as Taylor himself
recommended the territory we then had, and
stopping there and rendering peace to Mexico.
This they refused to do, and insisted on ST orm-
ing the Halls of the Montezumas,' and asked
men and money for that. They got them and
they got the Halls of the Montezumas. Have
they got a peaces They said they would die
tate it from the Capital. said they would
not-could not. Was my prophesy of theirs,
the true one : No-they have got rivers of
blood mountain of debt but no peace. 1
shall send no reply to this or any other such
attack. My own State at the recent election,
has fully vindicated my course. With this
am content to leave the matter to the calm
Judgment of thinking men,