. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . their vernaculartongue. What! the opposition, who in 1798 and 1799 couldraise a useless army to fight an enemy three thousand milesdistant from us, alarmed at the existence of one raised for aknown specified object—the attack of the adjoining provincesof the enemy? The gentleman from Massachusetts [], who assisted by his vote to raise the army of twenty-five thousand, alarmed at the danger
. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . their vernaculartongue. What! the opposition, who in 1798 and 1799 couldraise a useless army to fight an enemy three thousand milesdistant from us, alarmed at the existence of one raised for aknown specified object—the attack of the adjoining provincesof the enemy? The gentleman from Massachusetts [], who assisted by his vote to raise the army of twenty-five thousand, alarmed at the danger of our liberties from thisvery army! I mean to speak of another subject which I never think of THE WAR OF 1812 201 but with the most awful considerations. The gentleman fromMassachusetts [Mr. Quincy] has entertained us with cabinetplots, presidential plots, which are conjured up in the gentle-mans own perturbed imagination. I wish, sir, that anotherplot of a much more serious kind—a plot that aims at the dis-memberment of our Union—had only the same imaginary exis-tence. But no man who had paid any attention to the tone ofcertain prints, and to transactions in a particular quarter of. PRESIDENT MADISON AND HIS SNAPPING TURTLE To the Grave Go Sham Protectors of Free Trade and Sailors Rights —anj All the People Say Amen! From the collection of the New York Public Library the Union for several years past, can doubt the existence ofsuch a plot. The project is not brought forward openly, witha direct avowal of the intention. No, the stock of good sense andpatriotism in that portion of the country is too great to be un-disguisedly encountered. It is assailed from the masked bat-teries of friendship to peace and commerce on the one side, andby the groundless imputation of opposite propensities on theother. The affections of the people are to be gradually under-mined. The project is suggested or withdrawn; the diabolicalparties in this criminal tragedy make their appearance or
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