Speech of Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, on the Reference of the President´s Message
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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Dixon, of Connecticut, on the Reference of the President´s Message: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. States, January 24, 1848 The House being in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, and having under consideration the President´s Annual Message, (Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, in the Chair) - Mr. Dixon (of Connecticut) addressed the Committee as follows: Mr. Chairman: When the resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to General Taylor was before this House, a short time since, a member from Indiana offered an amendment, to the effect that the battles in which Gen. Taylor had been engaged, were fought in defence of the rights and honor of the nation. This amendment my friend from Massachusetts, (Mr. Ashmun,) immediately proposed to amend, by adding thereto these words - "In A War Unnecessarily And Unconstitutionally Commenced By The President Of The United States." For this proposition of the gentleman from Massachusetts I voted. I believed it true then; I believe it true now. I rejoiced when the gentleman, with his accustomed promptitude and readiness, proposed his amendment, and have never given a vote more willingly in this House than on that occasion. It will be, sir, a part of my object, in addressing the Committee at this time, to prove the truth of the proposition then adopted by the majority of this House. I dare not flatter myself that, in the discussion of this question, I shall be able to present any thing new to the attention of the committee. The subject has been so fully and so ably treated, not only in this House, but by the Press throughout the country, that it seems almost impossible to impart to its discussion any novelty whatever. If I shall succeed in so doing, I shall deem myself peculiarly fortunate. In what I am about to say, I shall have occasion to question the accuracy of the President of the United States, but I shall endeavor to do so with a becoming respect for the dignity of his high office. I shall raise with him no question of personal veracity. I shall not assume that he has intended to deceive this House and the country. The supposition that he sat down to write his messages with the deliberate determination to misstate facts, is too shocking to be entertained, or, if entertained, to be expressed in this place. I shall not take that ground, though I believe that errors, with regard to matters of fact, of the gravest character, abound in all the messages of the President relating to the war with Mexico. It is not for me to say they are intentional; though, if gentlemen on this floor have heretofore seen fit to express such an opinion, I recollect an instance of equal freedom of speech in another legislative assembly. I happened, a few days since, to fall in with some remarks, made on an occasion somewhat similar to the present, by a statesman of lofty standing in the British House of Lords, and I was struck with the freedom with which he spoke of certain statements made by the King in his speech from the throne. 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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