Also see:

John Quincy Adams, "Speech on the Joint Resolution for Distributing Rations to the Distressed Fugitives from the Indian Hostilities in the States of Alabama and Georgia," Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, May 25, 1836.

James Polk, Message of the President of the United States, December 8, 1846.

Joshua Giddings, "The Mexican War: Standing Army―Military Conquests Dangerous to the Conquerors...," Speeches in Congress (Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1853), 177-201.

Theodore Parker, "A Sermon of the Mexican War: Preached at the Melodeon, June 24, 1848," Boston, Massachusetts.