【英文原著类】Thomas Hart Benton’s Remarks to the Senate(西奥多罗斯福传).pdf

"ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION"
"ON THE EXPUNGING
RESOLUTION"
by Thomas Hart Benton
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"ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION"
"ON THE EXPUNGING
RESOLUTION"
Mr. President:
It is now three years since the resolve was adopted by the Senate,
which it is my present motion to expunge from the journal. At the
moment that this resolve was adopted, I gave notice of my intention to
move to expunge it; and then expressed my confident belief that the
motion would eventually prevail. That expression of confidence was not
an ebullition of vanity, or a presumptuous calculation, intended to
accelerate the event it affected to foretell. It was not a vain boast, or an
idle assumption, but was the result of a deep conviction of the injustice
done President Jackson, and a thorough reliance upon the justice of the
American people. I felt that the President had been wronged; and my
heart told me that this wrong would be redressed! The event proves that
I was not mistaken. The question of expunging this resolution has been
carried to the people, and their decision has been had upon it. They
decide in favor of the expurgation; and their decision has been both made
and manifested, municated to us in a great variety of ways. A
great number of States have expressly instructed their Senators to vote for
this expurgation. A very great majority of the States have elected
Senators and Re