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    Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
    Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
    Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
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    Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate

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      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate

      Author: Henry Clay

      Posting Date: July 23, 2008 [EBook #739] Release Date: December, 1996

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HENRY CLAY'S REMARKS ***

      Produced by Anthony J. Adam

        Henry Clay, On the Seminole War,

        U.S. House of Representatives

        19 January 1819.

        Henry Clay, On the Expunging Resolutions,

        U.S. Senate

        16 January 1837

      Part 1

        Henry Clay, On the Expunging Resolutions,

        U.S. Senate,

        16 January 1837

      Mr. President:

      WHAT patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for our common country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be circumscribed, and that of the President so restricted that it ought to be extended? What power has the Senate? None, separately. It can only act jointly with the other House, or jointly with the Executive. And although the theory of the Constitution supposes, when consulted by him, it may freely give an affirmative or negative response, according to the practice, as it now exists, it has lost the faculty of pronouncing the negative monosyllable. When the Senate expresses its deliberate judgment, in the form of resolution, that resolution has no compulsory force, but appeals only to the dispassionate intelligence, the calm reason, and the sober judgment, of the community. The Senate has no army, no navy, no patronage,

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