half insane mumbling of a fever dream is the whole war part of the late message! At one time telling us that Mexico has nothing whatever that we can get but territory; at another, showing us how we can support the war by levying contributions on Mexico. At one time urging the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign interference, and even the good of Mexico herself, as among the objects of the war; at another, telling us that, ‘to reject indemnity by refusing to accept a cession of territory, would be to abandon all our just demands, and to wage the war, bearing all its expenses, _without a purpose or definite object_.’ So, then, the national honor, security of the future, and everything but territorial indemnity, may be considered the _no purposes_ and _indefinite_ objects of the war! But having it now settled that territorial indemnity is the only object, we are urged to seize, by legislation here, all that he was content to take a few months ago, and the whole province of Lower California to boot, and to still carry on the war--to take _all_ we are fighting for, and _still_ fight on. Again, the President is resolved, under all circumstances, to have full territorial indemnity for the expenses of the war; but he forgets to tell us how we are to get the _excess_ after those expenses shall have surpassed the value of the _whole_ of the Mexican territory. So, again, he insists that the separate national existence of Mexico shall be maintained; but he does not tell us _how_ this can be done after we shall have taken _all_ her territory. Lest the question I here suggest be considered speculative merely, let me be indulged a moment in trying to show they are not.