The Works of Daniel Webster
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ISBN13: 9780217614221
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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: STATE OF THE FINANCES IN 1840. A Motion was submitted in the Senate, on the 14th of December, 1840, to refer so much of the President's message at the beginning of the session as relates to the finances to the Standing Committee on Finance. This question coming up for discussion on the 16th, Mr. Webster addressed the Senate substantially as follows: ? Mr. President, ? It has not been without great reluctance that I have risen to offer any remarks on the message of the President, especially at this early period of the session. I have no wish to cause, or to witness, a prolonged, and angry, and exciting discussion on the topics it contains. The message is, mainly, devoted to an elaborate and plausible defence of the course of the existing administration; it dwells on the subjects which have been so long discussed among us; on banks and banking, on the excess of commerce and speculation, on the State debts, and the dangers arising from them, on the Sub- treasury, as it has been called, or the Independent Treasury, as others have denominated it. I propose now to deal with none of these points. So far as they may be supposed to affect, the merits or character of the administration, they have, as I understand it, been passed upon by the country; and I have no disposition to reargue any of them. Nor do I wish to enter upon an inquiry as to what, in relation to all these things, is supposed to have been approved or disapproved by the people of the United States, by their decision in the late election. It appears, however, thus far, to be the disposition of the nation to change the administration of the government. All I propose at thistime to do is, to present some remarks on the subject of the finances, speaking on the present state of things only, without recurring to the past, or...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217614221 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217614221 |
| Weight | 1.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $28.57 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 394 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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