Speech Of The Hon Henry Clay PDF Download

Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, on the Subject of the Removal of the Deposites: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 26, 30, 1833 After all these testimonies to the perfect safety of the public mo neys in the place appointed by Congress, who could have supposed that the place would have been changed Who could have imagined that, within Sixty days of the meeting of Congress, and, as it were, in utter contempt of its authority, the change should have been or dered? Who would have dreamt that the Treasurer should have thrown away the single key to the Treasury, over which Congress held ample control, and accepted, in lieu of it, some dozens of keys, over which neither Congress nor he has any adequate control? Yet, sir, all this has been done, and it is now 'our solemn duty to inquire, lst, By whose authority it has been ordered and, 2d, 'whether the order has been given in conformity with the constitution and laws of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.