He was for a peace category, and he thought he held in his hand a proposition, that by proper management, using the most tender delicacy, and otherwise respecting the sensibilities of the high and honorable nation in question, we might possibly get out of this embarrassing dilemma without actually coming to blows--he said to blows, for he wished to impress on honorable members the penalties of war.

He invited gentlemen to recollect that a conflict between two great nations was a serious affair.

If Leapthrough were a little nation, it would be a different matter, and the contest might be conducted in a corner; our honor was intimately connected with all we did with great nations.

What was war?
Did gentlemen know?
He would tell them.
Here the orator drew a picture of war that caused suffering monikinity to shudder.

He viewed it in its four leading points: its religious, its pecuniary, its political, and its domestic penalties.