Tell them that it must wait
until a House of Representatives, humbled and subdued like itself, and
a majority of it composed of the partisans of the President, shall prefer
articles of impeachment. Tell them, finally, that you have restored the
glorious doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance. And, if the
people do not pour out their indignation and imprecations, I have yet
to learn the character of American freemen.
END OF PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT "ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTIONS" (CLAY)
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Part 2
Henry Clay, "On the Seminole War," U.S. House of Representatives,
19 January 1819.
IF MY recollection does not deceive me, Bonaparte had passed
the Rhine and the Alps, had conquered Italy, the Netherlands, Holland,
Hanover, Lubec, and Hamburg, and extended his empire as far as
Altona, on the side of Denmark. A few days' march would have
carried him through Holstein, over the two Belts, through Funen, and
into the island of Zealand. What, then, was the conduct of England?
It was my lot to fall into conversation with an intelligent Englishman
on this subject. "We knew (said he) that we were fighting for our
existence. It was absolutely necessary that we should preserve the
command of the seas.
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