Political And Official Papers
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It has ever been the trick of ambition, from the days of Caesar to our own. With all this display of respect for the popular will, no man ever held that will in DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATIONS. 243 greater contempt, when it came in conflict with his own, than the late President. Sir, if you desire the proof of it, you shall find it not only in the heady current of his life, but in the whole course of that battle with the Legislative power which marked his career ; his perpetual veto of the representa...tive action in the internal improvement bills, the bank bills, the land bill all forbidden in the face of large majorities of the direct representatives of the people notoriously in the face of the popular judgment and wish of the day. You shall see it in the famous removal of the deposits ; in the refusal to restore them ; in that high-handed measure of holding back the land bill when it was known that two-thirds of both Houses would have passed it in spite of the veto ; and, above all other acts of contumacy to public opinion and popular will the cap-sheaf of his waywardness his pocketing (as it has been signifi cantly termed) of the bill for the repeal of the Treasury cir cular.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It has ever been the trick of ambition, from the days of Caesar to our own. With all this display of respect for the popular will, no man ever held that will in DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATIONS. 243 greater contempt, when it came in conflict with his own, than the late President. Sir, if you desire the proof of it, you shall find it not only in the heady current of his life, but in the whole course of that battle with the Legislative power which marked his career ; his perpetual veto of the representa...tive action in the internal improvement bills, the bank bills, the land bill all forbidden in the face of large majorities of the direct representatives of the people notoriously in the face of the popular judgment and wish of the day. You shall see it in the famous removal of the deposits ; in the refusal to restore them ; in that high-handed measure of holding back the land bill when it was known that two-thirds of both Houses would have passed it in spite of the veto ; and, above all other acts of contumacy to public opinion and popular will the cap-sheaf of his waywardness his pocketing (as it has been signifi cantly termed) of the bill for the repeal of the Treasury cir cular.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by John Pendleton Kennedy to read onlineMoreLess
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