The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . and therefore, by the logic of the President, notobligatory on the Senate. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting are due to therefractory Senators who have been singled out as the objectof Executive denunciation, for their bold and eloquent vindica-tion of their own privileges, and the rights and liberties of theAmerican people, in defiance of the machinations of party andmenaces of power. • This, of course, refers to the removal of the Secretary of the Treasurya
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . and therefore, by the logic of the President, notobligatory on the Senate. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting are due to therefractory Senators who have been singled out as the objectof Executive denunciation, for their bold and eloquent vindica-tion of their own privileges, and the rights and liberties of theAmerican people, in defiance of the machinations of party andmenaces of power. • This, of course, refers to the removal of the Secretary of the Treasuryand also the appointment of personal agents to inspect the banks. It will berecalled, of course, by every student of history, that Roger B. Taney wasappointed by Jackson to the removed Secretarys place. This general knowl-edge of national history must be largely assumed in the reader, in the limitedspace intended to describe one mans relation to it. Taney was also a gradu-ate of Dickinson College thirty years before Williams received his diploma. Reprinted from the Daily Advocate of May 7th by the Gazette of the LEADER OF THE WHIGS 65 Among more than a dozen toasts that followed wasone: To the Memory of the first President of the UnitedStates.—Let no military chieftain, who has made theEmperor Napoleon his model, dare assume the title ofthe Second Washington. One feature of the meeting was the presentation byMr. Bakewell of a tentative Whig ticket for Congressand Assembly after the speeches were made, HarmarDenny, the then present anti-Mason representative inCongress, heading the ticket. The Advocate adopted theticket, but the Gazette wished a regular convention. Meanwhile, on May loth, Mr. Williams wrote his wife,then visiting in Baltimore: My time has been entirelyengrossed by preparations for the Great Whig Festival,many of the preliminary arrangements being thrown onmy shoulders as a member of the committee. A placewas assigned me, quite against my will & in sp
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