Excerpt from A Review of the Mexican War on Christian Principles: And an Essay on the Means of Preventing War Although the author of these pages docs not owe to his brethren in the ministry, an explanation of his position, as a contributor to a Review which is not conducted by members of his own church, yet, if there be any who are interested in it, he has only to remind them that there is but one Episcopal periodical published in the South, of which the editor is a Southerner, or which can be properly regarded as a Southern publication. He alludes to that published in Charleston, the aim of which (to the best of his knowledge) is scarcely other than diocesan. It must be acknowledged that the brevity of this essay hardly consists with the importance of the theme, or with the abundance and interesting variety of the materials that gather around it. But the limited space which, on the present occasion, has been assigned, and which is rather imposed by the form of republication that has been adopted, has rendered it expedient to abridge the article to less than half of its original length. It is, perhaps, as well to apprize the reader, that the work, in its previous form, appeared under the signature of "A Southern Democrat" in the competition for a prize offered by the Peace Society, and that the writer is the individual referred to, in the following remarks, in the Peace Advocate. After announcing Mr. Livermore as the successful competitor, and the circumstances under which the essay of Judge Jay was about to be published, the editor added: - "Another of the twelve competitors for the prize, requested the return of his manuscript, with a view to publication, and it was accordingly sent back to him; but we do not learn that he has yet taken steps to have it published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.