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It was a vote of unlimited confidence in an administration in which, he was sorry to say, there was very little confidence to be placed." Mr.John Quincy Adams differed from Mr.Winthrop, and could not refrain from a pardonable thrust at that gentleman for his previous vote that "war existed by act of Mexico." He differed from his colleague, Mr.Adams demurely affirmed, with a regret equal to that with which he had differed from him on the bill by which war was declared.
He should not vote for this bill in any form, but suggested that it be so amended as to specify expressly that the money is granted for the purpose of negotiating peace with Mexico.
THE WILMOT PROVISO.
The bill was promptly modified in accordance with the desires of Mr.Adams, and at the moment when its passage seemed secure it was arrested by an amendment of momentous character, submitted by a young member from Pennsylvania.

David Wilmot represented a district which had always given Democratic majorities, and was himself an intense partisan of that political school.