Speech of the Hon. William Gaston of North Carolina
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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. William Gaston of North Carolina: On the Bill to Authorise a Loan of Twenty-Five Millions of Dollars Delivered in the House of Representatives, February, 1814 Mr. Chairman, I fear I am about to engage in a very injudicious attempt. I fear that the patience of the committee is exhausted, and that it would be idle to hope for their attention. It was originally my wish, to claim their notice at an early stage of the debate; but I found this wish was not to be effected, but by a competition for the floor, and I thought such a competition not justified by the nature of the remarks which I had to submit. Under these impressions I had made up my mind to wait until some favorable unoccupied interval should be presented; and I should not now have presumed to anticipate other gentlemen, who seem disposed to address you, but for some extraordinary observations which have just been uttered, and which in my opinion demand immediate animadversion. The gentlman from Tennessee, who has this moment resumed his seat, (Mr. Grundy) seems a little sore that his doctrine of Moral Treason, which he promulgated at the last session, should have been so vehemently oppugned by the persons for whose benefit he had compiled it. I am not of the number of those, Mr. Chairman, who have deemed this doctrine worthy of examination. As originally understood, it was so preposterous, and so repugnant to the principles of our constitution, that every intelligent freeman found its refutation in the consciousness of his own liberty. By subsequent explanations and definitions, it has been so attenuated and subtilized, that what was never very distinct, now almost eludes perception. According to the last attempt at exposition, if it have any meaning, it would seem to embrace systematic efforts, to persuade capitalists not to lend money, and the unthinking youth not to enlist as soldiers, to carry on the war against Canada. His denunciations of such a system - of the existence of which I know nothing, and which, if it exist, is innocent or criminal, according to the motives from which it springs, pass by me altogether unheeded. But his unfounded imputations upon some of the best men, and truest patriots of the country; and his attempt to support his doctrine by their example ought to be repelled, and a very short notice will suffice for that purpose. 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.
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