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Of the United States 20 resist them would the establish
I'd ssss 2ih Cong.. Reps. Of Committsss No i94, a.
| In the same document. page As, Mr.. Forsyth says;
forbid: s.s p a g q 2 my
while following their example"
/ II appears from the same document, page "a, that
Amos Kendall, then Postmaster General from DO. page
Az Levi Woodbury. Secretary of the Treasury from
page 4s. Mahon bickerson Secretary Of the Nayy and
aeny Seceory Of War ravs smaT answers
II thus appears that my honorable friend has introduced
procedure here in the nature Of the Spanish nquson
would the establishment Of the Spanish inquisiiion
And therefore suppose shall do no injustice to the
senator if consider him as the grand inquisitor
| A voIcE The main nqusitor.
1 Mr.. SMITH. Yes; the main nquisitor.
8 In speaking OF the injurious character Of this
luton, must not omit very extraordinary paragraph
follows:
"If any friend Of the administration will in his place
here on It's behalf csndidy acknowledge that these pledges
rned In the inaugural address, have been violated and
that democrats removed because they democrats,
these frank admissions and thus relieve honorable and
honest men who have suffered prescription for their political
opinon from the unjust imputaton OF dishonesty nfdey
or incaPacy repeat will not ask for the adoption Of
With respect to the suggestion that the parties removed
were abonng under unjust imputatons, for the
stated that can be shown to be groundess authority
which the senator must respect being that OF the opinions
Of the late Mr. Grundy one Of the leaders Of the demo
cratic party. In a debate which took place in this
chamber on the 18th Of February 1885, that gentleman
said
IN is no dspamgement to mans standing or character
that another Individual has been found who perform the
duties Of the office well he cam and that another has
been appointed in his place If the office has been adj
benefits in preference all his contemporaries. On the
other hand ifhe office has been burdensome ought in
Register Of Debates, pol. ii, part i, p. 53I.
These opinions were expressed by Mr. Grundy, in face
OF avowals by President Jackson, as to grounds Of
movas analogous TO those OF President Taylor which
the senator fefers and hence there is foundation for
the pretence that the information is wanted relieve the
parties removed from impaation. But. if the fact be
otherwise how does the senator propose TO relieve them
BY sacrificing the character of the President Of the United
States for honor and recttude The honorable member,
OF faith, which he calls "the grand result" cooly
proposes, that if his friends twill canddly acknowledge
that Zachary Taylor has violated his word. he will
press his resolution II is manifest then, that the
nton is introduced for no practical purpose whatever.
No useful measure OF legislation 10 be founded upon
nothing for the benefit of the toilng mllo in this
great country But we required to admit that the
Bile man at the head of government is infamous,
we are to lie under the erors Of this resolution Does
the honorable senator really suppose that we are about
the service OF his countrywide has for the stars
and stripes an impensbable renown, and whose purity
s bases q M Sos
no such commission and any should attempt to i'm
pose upon me, every impulse Of my heart would lead
me to spurn il. tasaRs ta EDS sslM
Having thus fully developed the injurious character Of
this resolution. leave it the hands Of the Senate. and
bid the senator welcome to any laures which he is
likely to win in such contest
But, Mr. President, il will now be my duty to examine
IN some detail the basis upon which my honorable friend
has erected bis whole supestructure Of apprehension Of
the Chief Magistrate OF this country The honorable
senator takes generally the ground that the President and
his friends gave series OF pledges TO the country in ad
vance OF the late presidential election, of distinct and
specific character, and he insists that the effect OF these
pledges was such as to impose upon the present Execu
tive the obligation to remove from Office, except
ment He holds out he idea that these pledges Or sssa
RANGES were so binding upon the President, that was
not competent for him to make single removal from any
The party interested, and without aordns him an oppor
tuny 10 be heard TO examine Witnesses and defend
himself by counsel And where does the senator find his
basis for such exposition thsi II y 70 be found in
the main, in certain extracts made from seven letters Of
the President communicated TO the public in advance of
the late presidential election, remarks made by some
two or three OF his leading friends during the canvass
and in few short sentences produced from the Pres
DENTS inaugural address
Now, have to say, in the first place. that very great
injustice has been done TO President Taylor in regard TO
this correspondence utterly deny, and prove
cusvey. that he made any assurances or gave
cannot doubt that my friend in making the seec
tons from the letters referred to- acted good fah
yet will say that il the most ingenious in the
try had been employed 10 select passages from the
pondence OF the President which would give view OF
his position more injurious than any other he certainly
could not have been successful than the honorable
gentleman has been in bringing forward these extracts
Indeed. have very seriously doubted whether he made
them HIMSELF and have been led TO suspect that he must
have taken them from OF the political illusions OF
the day, or in other words that IL the work OF
newspaper editor whose object was traduce and SLAM
der the President But il the honorable senator made
these selections have TO say to him and to the Senate
that is entirely apparent that he could not have been
conversant as was with what may properly call the /
Taylor literature OF iS4S. The honorable gentleman
not to have been at all conversan with that sort
OF literature; and il he had been digent and as |
thorough student OF il as was. very sure that my
friend would have made much Just and faithful
exhibition OF This entire matter than he has done
Now, sir, before proceed TO TO this subject in
detail wish to make some preliminary remarks In the
first place. would observe that there ia sort OF doubt
but that when the idea first suggested to President
Taylor that he could BY any possibility be elected Pres
dent OF the United States, he received that suggestion
with the utmost repugnance believe he is not the first
in the history OF the country, rather the first
who has held the presidential Office, who felt and ex
pressed a similar repugnance. have always understood
that General Jackson when the idea first commun
Gated 10 him OF his being candidate for the presidency
received not only with Incredibly, but almost with con-
tempt and ridcue Every one knowing anything OF the
character OF the President must be convinced that he felt
sincere aversion to having his brought before the
public in connection with he presidential Office In any
FORM Al this period sir he was at the head Of our army
in Mexico, and he believed that improper for him.
occupying the position he did, commanding wings and
democrats TO consent 10 become party candidate Tor the
presidency And this he explains in letter addressed 10
Capt Allison, dated at East Pascagoua, Sept A. is4s,
follows
~ was surrounded by wings and democrats, who had
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