"Were a new life hid in each mangled limb, I would search and find it; and howe'er to some I may seem cruel thus to tyrannize Upon this senseless flesh, I _glory_ in it, .. .. . my falling _glories_ Being made up again, and cemented With a son's blood." _The Unnatural Combat_, Act II. Sc. 1. The father, whose hands are wet with a son's blood, is thus addressed:-- "The conqueror that survives _Must reap the harvest of his bloody labor_. _Sound all loud instruments of joy and triumph._" _Ibid._ The soul revolts from such a triumph; but how does this differ from the triumphs of war? The enlightened morality of our age will yet confess that it is equally wrong to commemorate by thanksgiving or holiday any bloody success, even in a _just_ contest, over our _brother man_. NECESSITY OF POLITICAL ACTION AGAINST THE SLAVE POWER AND THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. SPEECH IN THE WHIG STATE CONVENTION OF MASSACHUSETTS, AT SPRINGFIELD, SEPTEMBER 29, 1847. MR. SUMNER persevered in opposition to the Mexican War, as unjust in character, and waged for the sake of Slavery. At a Whig meeting in Boston, assembled in Washingtonian Hall, September 15, for the choice of delegates to the Annual State Convention, he introduced the following Resolutions. "_Resolved_, That a war of aggression, conquest, and robbery is a national crime of unquestionable atrocity, which good citizens should strive by unceasing exertion to prevent and arrest. "_Resolved_, That such a war becomes doubly hateful, when the lust of conquest is inflamed and stimulated by the passion to extend Slavery and to strengthen the Slave Power. "_Resolved_, That the present war with Mexico is unconstitutional in origin, unjust in character, and detestable in object, and that a regard for the Constitution, which is outraged, for the Union, which is endangered, for the lives of innocent men vainly sacrificed, for the principles of justice wantonly violated, and for the true honor of the country tarnished, should animate us to oppose with uncompromising earnestness the further waste of national treasure for purposes of aggression, and to call for the withdrawal of our troops within the acknowledged limits of the United States. "_Resolved_, That we are unchangeably opposed to the annexation of any territory to this Union, either directly by conquest, or indirectly as payment for expenses of the war; but if additional territory be forced upon us, or be acquired by purchase, or in any other way, then we will demand that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude therein, otherwise than for the punishment of crime."