I believe that all our differences with Mexico, whether in relation to the question of boundary, or in relation to the question of indemnity for spoilations, might have been satisfactorily and honorably settled without a resort to arms. I assert, moreover, and challenge investigation to the truth of the assertion, that this war resulted, not from the act of Mexico, but from the unauthorized and unconstitutional acts of our own Executive Government. These are my own deliberate and settled opinions, the irresistible convictions of my own judgment … and therefore I hesitate not to declare them. I do not forget that the expression of sentiments or opinions like these has been charged … as treason to the country, couched in the equivalent language of the Constitution, as giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy.

--Solomon Foot, Vermont Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, February 10, 1847