Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio
| Preis: | 11.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Corwin, Thomas) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio: In Reply to General Crary´s Attack on General Harrison; Delivered in the House of Representatives February 15, 1840 Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, rose and said: Mr. Speaker: I am admonished, by the eager solicitations of gentlemen. around me to give way for a motion to adjourn, of that practice of the House, which accords us more of leisure on this day, than is allowed us on any other day of the week. The servants of other good masters are, I believe, indulged in a sort of saturnalium in the afternoon of Saturday, and we have supposed, that our kind masters, the people, might be willing to grant us, their most faithful slaves, a similar respite from toil. It is now past three o´clock in the afternoon, and I should be very willing to pause in the discussion, were I not urged by those menacing cries of "Go on," from various parts of the House. In this state of things, I cannot hope to summon to any thing like attention the unquiet minds of many, or the jaded and worn down faculties of a still larger portion of the House. I hope, however, the House will not withhold from me a boon, which I have often seen granted to others, that is, the privilege of speaking without being oppressed by a crowded audience, which is accompanied by this additional advantage, that the orator thus situated can at least listen to and hear himself. If you, Mr. Speaker, and the members of this House, have given that attention to the speech of the gentleman from Michigan, (Mr. Crary,) made yesterday, which some of us here thought it our duty to bestow, I am sure the novelty of the scene, to say nothing more of it, must have arrested your curiosity, if, indeed, it did not give rise to profound reflection. I need not remind the House, that it is a rule here (as I suppose it is every where else, where men dispute by any rule at all) that what is said in debate should be relevant and pertinent to the subject under discussion. The question before us, is a proposition to instruct the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill granting four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to continue the construction of the Cumberland road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The objections to the measure are, either that this Government is in no sense bound by compact to make the road, or that it is not a work of any national concern, but merely of local interest, or that the present exhausted state of the Treasury will not warrant the appropriation, admitting the object of it to be fairly within the constitutional province of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
