Peace
We find Ãn on exchange paper ihe following Peace pledge, wilh the numes of the signers. It is worthy of remark tlmt nlmost all tho signers are Whigs. The Democratie leaders usually encourage and foste: u war spirit in their parly, as a means of retuining au influence over ihem, while they denounce the Whigs for their pre-disposition lo peace as "the British party, " enemies to their country," &c. The odmiration of military characters and exploits is greater with the Democrats than with the Whigs. "We believe that universal and permnnent peace belongs to the laws of nature and of nature's God; to the genius and vital spirit of Christianity; to the liberty, justice and prospcrity of natiuns; ir.dispensable to the true iuterests of mankind, and claiming tho prayers and united eifurts of all the friends of the human race." John Quixcy Adams. The following gentlemen subscribed the sentiment: IIknuyClav, of Ashland. Of the United States Senate: - Isaac C. Bates, Rufos Choate, Mass.; Wm. D. Merrick, Md.; Wm. Woodbridge, Mich.; Henry Johnson, Lou.j J. W. Huntington, Conn.; J. W. Miller, N. J.; Samuel S. Phelps, Vt.; Albion K. Paris, late Senator from Maine; Henry L. Ellsworth, Commissionerof Pntenls; Charles B. Penrose, Solicitor of Treasurv; Robert C. Winlhrop, M. C. of Boston; W. Hubbell, Mi C. of N. Y.; P. Dillingham, M. C. of Vt. "With thestrongest conviction of the truth, justice and beauty of the above sentiment in favor of peace, I add my name to that of the venerable author of these sentiments. - D. D. Barnard, M. C. of Albany; Luther Bradish, N. Y.; W. B. Crosby, N. Y.; C. P. Smith, Brooklyn.
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