Show I The Indianapolis Journal recalls a paragraph In President Polks second annual message t Congress Decembers December-s 18JG as follows Tho war has been represented as unjust and unnecessary and U ono oC aggression amTesslol on our part upon a weak nnd Injured enemy Such erroneous views though I en 4 tertained bv but ow havo been widely and extensively circulated not wleel home r but havo becit spread throughout Mexico and the whole world A more of rcctual means could not have been devised to encpurauo the enemy and protract tho nne war than to advocate and adhero to their cause and thus glvo them aid and com fort S History seems to be repeating Itself Some very good men arc opposing the war In Luzon and thus lending aid and comfort to the cutthroats there Senator Sena-tor Hoar Is one of these His ancient Puritan soul has taken on a horror of j bloodshed and would consent to a dis honorable peace In order to stop It He forgets that most of the reforms of this old world have been brought around I throligh rOunl I through violence and It was so when by Gods direction the Egyptians dlreclon ESptanB were j t Jlrst spoiled and then drownccl |