I certainly have no objections to our minister's making such representations as he can in favor of the release of citizens of the United States, although taken in actual war against Mexico, in association with Texian forces; but I am not prepared to go to war to obtain their liberation.
Quincy expresses his reluctance to go to war for the release of American citizens involved in a conflict with Mexico.
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