Thomas Hart Benton’s Remarks to the Senate(西奥多罗斯福传)

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"ON THE EXPUNGING RESOLUTION"

"ON THE EXPUNGING

RESOLUTION"

by Thomas Hart Benton

"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, and communicated 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 Representatives to Congress, upon the express ground of

favoring this expurgation. The Bank of the United States, which took the

initiative in the accusation against the President, and furnished the

material, and worked the machinery which was used against him, and

which was then so powerful on this floor, has become more and more

odious to the public mind, and musters now but a slender phalanx of

friends in the two Houses of Congress. The late Presidential election

furnishes additional evidence of public sentiment. The candidate who

was the friend of President Jackson, the supporter of his administration,

and the avowed advocate for the expurgation, has received a large

majority of the suffrages of the whole Union, and that after an express

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