Speech of the Hon. John Bell
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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. John Bell: Delivered at Vauxhall Garden, Nashville, on the 23rd of May, 1835 Gentlemen: - This is the first entertainment of the kind which I have accepted from my friends, when offered as a testimony of their esteem and approbation of my public course. Such occasions, I know, are sometimes got up, rather as a mark of the friendship of individuals, than a demonstration of the general sentiment of the country. Sometimes too, for political considerations, public men are made the objects of public attention, when personal regard or confidence are felt by scarcely any. Upon this occasion, whatever political considerations may have prompted it, I feel a more than usual degree of pleasure in the reflection, that these are my personal friends - and in responding to the sentiment, so flattering to my feelings, which has just been announced from the chair, I can only offer the tribute of a heart, warm and keenly alive to all the sympathies naturally inspired by this open and public manifestation of your generous and unaltered attachment. Sometimes, in our passage through life, we may undervalue the advantages of ties, of which, it is not every one, who will admit the reality; and there are others, who hold many things, money, official station and power, of such superior importance that they are to be sought and attained, at the expense of all the indulgences of private partialities and confidence. This may be true philosophy of mere politicians; but it is worthy to be remembered that the sacred love of country itself is of the nature of the social and private virtues, founded upon the same affections of the human heart, and he that can be insensible and faithless to the obligations of the one, will be equally false to the other, whenever it shall serve his more cherished interests to be so. I have been, of late, the subject of much obloquy, as you know, and from a quarter too, whence I deserved better treatment. I am still the object of most inveterate and persevering attacks, both here and elsewhere. As in all cases of the kind, there is something political and something personal in its origin. 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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