Speeches and Forensic Arguments
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ISBN13: 9780217999953
Paperback|9780217999953
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REMARKS IN SECRET SESSION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, ON THE NOMINATION OF MR. VAN BUREN AS MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN, JANUARY 1A, 1832. Mr. President: As it is highly probable that our proceedings on this nomination will be published, I deem it proper to state shortly the considerations which influenced my opinion, and will decide my vote. I regard this as a very important and delicate question. It is full of responsibility; and I feel the whole force of all that responsibility. While I have been in the Senate, I have opposed no nomination of the President, except for cause; and I have at all times thought that such cause should be plain and sufficient; that it should be real and substantial, not unfounded or fanciful. I have never desired, and do not now desire, to encroach, in the slightest degree, on the Constitutional powers of the Chief Magistrate of the Nation. I have heretofore gone far, very far, in assenting to nominations which have been submitted to us. I voted for the appointment of all the gentlemen who composed the first Cabinet; I have opposed no nomination of a foreign Minister; and I have not opposed the nominations recently before us, for the re-organization of the administration. I have always been especially anxious, that, in all matters relating to our intercourse with other nations, the utmost harmony, the greatest unity of purpose, should exist between the President and the Senate. I know how much of usefulness such harmony and union are calculated to produce. I am now fully aware, Sir, that it is a serious, a very serious matter, to vote against the confirmation of a Minister to a Foreign Court, who has already gone abroad, and has been received and accredited by the Government to which he is sent. I am aware, that the rejection of...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217999953 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217999956 |
| Weight | 0.86 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 In |
| List Price | $29.13 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 262 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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