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+Title: Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
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+Author: Henry Clay
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+  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, no lucrative offices, no glittering
+honors, to bestow.  Around us there is no swarm of greedy expectants,
+rendering us homage, anticipating our wishes, and ready to execute our
+commands.
+
+How is it with the President?  Is he powerless?  He is felt from one
+extremity to the other of this vast Republic.  By means of principles
+which he has introduced, and innovations which he has made in our
+institutions, alas! but too much countenanced by Congress and a
+confiding people, he exercises, uncontrolled, the power of the State.
+In one hand he holds the purse, and in the other brandishes the sword
+of the country.  Myriads of dependants and partisans, scattered over
+the land, are ever ready to sing hosannas to him, and to laud to the
+skies whatever he does.  He has swept over the government, during the
+last eight years, like a tropical tornado.  Every department exhibits
+traces of the ravages of the storm.  Take as one example the Bank of
+the United States.  No institution could have been more popular with
+the people, with Congress, and with State Legislatures.  None ever
+better fulfilled the great purposes of its establishment.  But it
+unfortunately incurred the displeasure of the President; he spoke, and
+the bank lies prostrate.  And those who were loudest in its praise are
+now loudest in its condemnation. What object of his ambition is
+unsatisfied?  When disabled from age any longer to hold the sceptre of
+power, he designates his successor, and transmits it to his favorite!
+What more does he want?  Must we blot, deface, and mutilate the records
+of the country, to punish the presumptuousness of expressing an opinion
+contrary to his own?  What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by
+this Expunging resolution?  Can you make that not to be which has been?
+Can you eradicate from memory and from history the fact that in March,
+1834, a majority of the Senate of the United States passed the
+resolution which excites your enmity?  Is it your vain and wicked
+object to arrogate to yourselves that power of annihilating the past
+which has been denied to Omnipotence itself?  Do you intend to thrust
+your hands into our hearts, and to pluck out the deeply rooted
+convictions which are there?  Or is it your design merely to stigmatize
+us?  You cannot stigmatize us.
+
+     "Ne'er yet did base dishonor blur our name."
+
+Standing securely upon our conscious rectitude, and bearing aloft the
+shield of the Constitution of our country, your puny efforts are
+impotent; and we defy all your power.  Put the majority of 1834 in one
+scale, and that by which this Expunging resolution is to be carried in
+the other, and let truth and justice, in heaven above and on earth
+below, and liberty and patriotism, decide the preponderance.
+
+What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by the Expunging
+resolution?  Is it to appease the wrath and to heal the wounded pride
+of the Chief Magistrate?  If he be really the hero that his friends
+represent him, he must despise all mean condescension,  all grovelling
+sycophancy, all self-degradation and self-abasement.  He would reject,
+with scorn and contempt, as unworthy of his fame, your black scratches
+and your baby lines in the fair records of his country.  Black lines!
+Black lines!  Sir, I hope the Secretary of the Senate will preserve the
+pen with which he may inscribe them, and present it to that Senator of
+the majority whom he may select, as a proud trophy, to be transmitted
+to his descendants.  And hereafter, when we shall lose the forms of our
+free institutions, all that now remain to us, some future American
+monarch, in gratitude to those by whose means he has been enabled, upon
+the ruins of civil liberty, to erect a throne, and to commemorate
+especially this Expunging resolution, may institute a new order of
+knighthood, and confer on it the appropriate name of "the Knights of
+the Black Lines."
+
+But why should I detain the Senate, or needlessly waste my breath in
+fruitless exertions?  The decree has gone forth.  It is one of urgency,
+too.  The deed is to be done--that foul deed which, like the blood,
+staining the hands of the guilty Macbeth, all ocean's  waters will
+never wash out.  Proceed, then, to the noble work which lies before
+you, and, like other  skilful executioners, do it quickly.  And when
+you have perpetrated it, go home to the people, and tell them what
+glorious honors you have achieved for our common country.  Tell them
+that you have extinguished one of the brightest and purest lights that
+ever burned at the altar of civil liberty.  Tell them that you have
+silenced one of the noblest batteries that ever thundered in defence of
+the Constitution, and bravely spiked the cannon.  Tell them that,
+henceforward, no matter what daring or outrageous act any president may
+perform, you have forever hermetically sealed the mouth of the Senate.
+Tell them that he may fearlessly assume what powers he pleases, snatch
+from its lawful custody the public purse, command a military detachment
+to enter the halls of the Capitol, overawe Congress, trample down the
+Constitution, and raze every bulwark of freedom; but that the Senate
+must stand mute, in silent submission, and not dare to raise its
+opposing voice.  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.
+
+
+
+      *      *      *      *      *
+
+
+
+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.
+If the fleet of Denmark fell into the enemy's hands, combined with his
+other fleets, that command might be rendered doubtful.  Denmark had
+only a nominal independence.  She was, in truth, subject to his sway.
+We said to her, Give us your fleet; it will otherwise be taken
+possession of by your secret and our open enemy.  We will preserve it
+and restore it to you whenever the danger shall be over.  Denmark
+refused.  Copenhagen was bombarded, and gallantly defended, but the
+fleet was seized."  Everywhere the conduct of England was censured; and
+the name even of the negotiator who was employed by her, who was
+subsequently the minister near this government, was scarcely ever
+pronounced here without coupling with it an epithet indicating his
+participation in the disgraceful transaction.  And yet we are going to
+sanction acts of violence, committed by ourselves, which but too much
+resemble it!  What an important difference, too, between the relative
+condition of England and of this country!  She, perhaps, was struggling
+for her existence.  She was combating, single-handed, the most enormous
+military power that the world has ever known.  With whom were we
+contending?  With a few half-starved, half-clothed, wretched Indians
+and fugitive slaves.  And while carrying on this inglorious war,
+inglorious as regards the laurels or renown won in it, we violate
+neutral rights, which the government had solemnly pledged itself to
+respect, upon the principle of convenience, or upon the light
+presumption that, by possibility, a post might be taken by this
+miserable combination of Indians and slaves....
+
+I will not trespass much longer upon the time of the committee; but I
+trust I shall be indulged with some few reflections upon the danger of
+permitting the conduct on which it has been my painful duty to
+animadvert, to pass without the solemn expression of the disapprobation
+of this House.  Recall to your recollection the free nations which have
+gone before us.  Where are they now?
+
+"Gone glimmering through the dream of  things that were, A schoolboy's
+tale, the wonder of an hour."
+
+And how have they lost their liberties?  If we could transport
+ourselves back to the ages when Greece and Rome flourished in their
+greatest prosperity, and, mingling in the throng, should ask a Grecian
+if he did not fear that some daring military chieftain, covered with
+glory, some Philip or Alexander, would one day overthrow the liberties
+of his country, the confident and indignant Grecian would exclaim, No!
+no! we have nothing to fear from our heroes; our liberties will be
+eternal.  If a Roman citizen had been asked if he did not fear that the
+conqueror of Gaul might establish a throne upon the ruins of public
+liberty, he would have instantly repelled the unjust insinuation.  Yet
+Greece fell; Caesar passed the Rubicon, and the patriotic arm even of
+Brutus could not preserve the liberties of his devoted country!  The
+celebrated Madame de Stael, in her last and perhaps her best work, has
+said, that in the very year, almost the very month, when the president
+of the Directory declared that monarchy would never more show its
+frightful head in France, Bonaparte, with his grenadiers, entered the
+palace of St. Cloud, and, dispersing with the bayonet the deputies of
+the people deliberating on the affairs of the State, laid the
+foundation of that vast fabric of despotism which overshadowed all
+Europe.  I hope not to be misunderstood; I am far from intimating that
+General Jackson cherishes any designs inimical to the liberties of the
+country.  I believe his intentions to be pure and patriotic.  I thank
+God that he would not, but I thank him still more that he could not if
+he would, overturn the liberties of the Republic.  But precedents, if
+bad, are fraught with the most dangerous consequences.  Man has been
+described, by some of those who have treated of his nature, as a bundle
+of habits.  The definition is much truer when applied to governments.
+Precedents are their habits.  There is one important difference between
+the formation of habits by an individual and by governments.  He
+contracts only after frequent repetition.  A single instance fixes the
+habit and determines the direction of governments.  Against the
+alarming doctrine of unlimited discretion in our military commanders
+when applied even to prisoners of war, I must enter my protest.  It
+begins upon them; it will end on us.  I hope our happy form of
+government is to be perpetual.  But, if it is to be preserved, it must
+be by the practice of virtue, by justice, by moderation, by
+magnanimity, by greatness of soul, by keeping a watchful and steady eye
+on the Executive; and, above all, by holding to a strict accountability
+the military branch of the public force.
+
+We are fighting a great moral battle for the benefit not only of our
+country, but of all mankind.  The eyes of the whole world are in fixed
+attention upon us.  One, and the larger portion of it, is gazing with
+contempt, with jealousy, and with envy; the other portion, with hope,
+with confidence, and with affection.  Everywhere the black cloud of
+legitimacy is suspended over the world, save only one bright spot,
+which breaks out from the political hemisphere of the West, to
+enlighten and animate and gladden the human heart.  Obscure that by the
+downfall of liberty here, and all mankind are enshrouded in a pall of
+universal darkness.   To you, Mr. Chairman, belongs the high privilege
+of transmitting, unimpaired, to posterity the fair character and
+liberty of our country.  Do you expect to execute this high trust by
+trampling, or suffering to be trampled down, law, justice, the
+Constitution, and the rights of the people?  by exhibiting examples of
+inhumanity and cruelty and ambition?  When the minions of despotism
+heard, in Europe, of the seizure of Pensacola, how did they chuckle,
+and chide the admirers of our institutions, tauntingly pointing to the
+demonstration of a spirit of injustice and aggrandizement made by our
+country, in the midst of an amicable negotiation!  Behold, said they,
+the conduct of those who are constantly reproaching kings!  You saw how
+those admirers were astounded and hung their heads.  You saw, too, when
+that illustrious man, who presides over us, adopted his pacific,
+moderate, and just course, how they once more lifted up their heads
+with exultation and delight beaming in their countenances.  And you saw
+how those minions themselves were finally compelled to unite in the
+general praises bestowed upon our government.  Beware how you forfeit
+this exalted character.  Beware how you give a fatal sanction, in this
+infant period of our Republic, scarcely yet twoscore years old, to
+military insubordination.  Remember that Greece had her Alexander, Rome
+her Caesar, England her Cromwell, France her Bonaparte, and that if we
+would escape the rock on which they split we must avoid their errors.
+
+How different has been the treatment of General Jackson and that
+modest, but heroic young man, a native of one of the smallest States in
+the Union, who achieved for his country, on Lake Erie, one of the most
+glorious victories of the late war.  In a moment of passion he forgot
+himself and offered an act of violence which was repented of as soon as
+perpetrated.  He was tried, and suffered the judgment to be pronounced
+by his peers.  Public justice was thought not even then to be
+satisfied.  The press and Congress took up the subject.  My honorable
+friend from Virginia, Mr. Johnson, the faithful and consistent sentinel
+of the law and of the Constitution, disapproved in that instance, as he
+does in this, and moved an inquiry.  The public mind remained agitated
+and unappeased until the recent atonement, so honorably made by the
+gallant commodore.  And is there to be a distinction between the
+officers of the two branches of the public service?  Are former
+services, however eminent, to preclude even inquiry into recent
+misconduct?  Is there to be no limit, no prudential bounds to the
+national gratitude?  I am not disposed to censure the President for not
+ordering a court of inquiry, or a general court-martial.  Perhaps,
+impelled by a sense of gratitude, he determined, by anticipation, to
+extend to the general that pardon which he had the undoubted right to
+grant after sentence.  Let us not shrink from our duty.  Let us assert
+our constitutional powers, and vindicate the instrument from military
+violation.
+
+I hope gentlemen will deliberately survey the awful isthmus on which we
+stand.  They may bear down all opposition; they may even vote the
+general the public thanks; they may carry him triumphantly through this
+House.  But, if they do, in my humble judgment, it will be a triumph of
+the principle of insubordination, a triumph of the military over the
+civil authority, a triumph over the powers of this House, a triumph
+over the Constitution of the land.  And I pray most devoutly to Heaven
+that it may not prove, in its ultimate effects and consequences, a
+triumph over the liberties of the people.
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+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
+
+
+
+
+Prepared by:
+Anthony J. Adam
+
+
+
+
+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 monosylllable.  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, no
+lucrative offices, no glittering honors, to bestow.  Around us there is
+no swarm of greedy expectants, rendering us homage, anticipating our
+wishes, and ready to execute our commands.                                      
+
+How is it with the President?  Is he powerless?  He is felt from one
+extremity to the other of this vast Republic.  By means of principles
+which he has introduced, and innovations which he has made in our
+institutions, alas! but too much countenanced by Congress and a
+confiding people, he exercises, uncontrolled, the power of the State. 
+In one hand he holds the purse, and in the other brandishes the sword
+of the country.  Myriads of dependants and partisans, scattered over
+the land, are ever ready to sing hosannas to him, and to laud to the
+skies whatever he does.  He has swept over the government, during the
+last eight years, like a tropical tornado.  Every department exhibits
+traces of the ravages of the storm.  Take as one example the Bank of
+the United States.  No institution could have been more popular with
+the people, with Congress, and with State Legislatures.  None ever
+better fulfilled the great purposes of its establishment.  But it
+unfortunately incurred the displeasure of the President; he spoke, and
+the bank lies prostrate.  And those who were loudest in its praise are
+now loudest in its condemnation. What object of his ambition is
+unsatisfied?  When disabled from age any longer to hold the sceptre
+of power, he designates his successor, and transmits it to his favorite! 
+What more does he want?  Must we blot, deface, and mutilate the
+records of the country, to punish the presumptuousness of expressing
+an opinion contrary to his own?                                    
+What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging
+resolution?  Can you make that not to be which has been?  Can you
+eradicate from memory and from history the fact that in March, 1834,
+a majority of the Senate of the United States passed the resolution
+which excites your enmity?  Is it your vain and wicked object to
+arrogate to yourselves that power of annihilating the past which has
+been denied to Omnipotence itself?  Do you intend to thrust your
+hands into our hearts, and to pluck out the deeply rooted convictions
+which are there?  Or is it your design merely to stigmatize us?  You
+cannot stigmatize us.                                       
+
+     "Ne'er yet did base dishonor blur our name."
+
+Standing securely upon our conscious rectitude, and bearing
+aloft the shield of the Constitution of our country, your puny efforts are
+impotent; and we defy all your power.  Put the majority of 1834 in one
+scale, and that by which this Expunging resolution is to be carried in
+the other, and let truth and justice, in heaven above and on earth
+below, and liberty and patriotism, decide the preponderance.
+
+What patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by the
+Expunging resolution?  Is it to appease the wrath and to heal the
+wounded pride of the Chief Magistrate?  If he be really the hero that
+his friends represent him, he must despise all mean condescension,  all
+grovelling sycophancy, all self-degradation and self-abasement.  He
+would reject, with scorn and contempt, as unworthy of his fame, your
+black scratches and your baby lines in the fair records of his country. 
+Black lines!  Black lines!  Sir, I hope the Secretary of the Senate will
+preserve the pen with which he may inscribe them, and present it to
+that Senator of the majority whom he may select, as a proud trophy, to
+be transmitted to his descendants.  And hereafter, when we shall lose
+the forms of our free institutions, all that now remain to us, some
+future American monarch, in gratitude to those by whose means he
+has been enabled, upon the ruins of civil liberty, to erect a throne, and
+to commemorate especially this Expunging resolution, may institute
+a new order of knighthood, and confer on it the appropriate name of
+"the Knights of the Black Lines."                                     
+
+But why should I detain the Senate, or needlessly waste my
+breath in fruitless exertions?  The decree has gone forth.  It is one of
+urgency, too.  The deed is to be done--that foul deed which, like the
+blood, staining the hands of the guilty Macbeth, all ocean's  waters
+will never wash out.  Proceed, then, to the noble work which lies
+before you, and, like other  skilful executioners, do it quickly.  And
+when you have perpetrated it, go home to the people, and tell them
+what glorious honors you have achieved for our common country.  Tell
+them that you have extinguished one of the brightest and purest lights
+that ever burned at the altar of civil liberty.  Tell them that you have
+silenced one of the noblest batteries that ever thundered in defence of
+the Constitution, and bravely spiked the cannon.  Tell them that,
+henceforward, no matter what daring or outrageous act any president
+may perform, you have forever hermetically sealed the mouth of the
+Senate.  Tell them that he may fearlessly assume what powers he
+pleases, snatch from its lawful custody the public purse, command a
+military detachment to enter the halls of the Capitol, overawe
+Congress, trample down the Constitution, and raze every bulwark of
+freedom; but that the Senate must stand mute, in silent submission,
+and not dare to raise its opposing voice.  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)               
+
+
+
+***
+
+
+
+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.  If the fleet of Denmark fell into the enemy's
+hands, combined with his other fleets, that command might be
+rendered doubtful.  Denmark had only a nominal independence.  She
+was, in truth, subject to his sway.  We said to her, Give us your fleet;
+it will otherwise be taken possession of by your secret and our open
+enemy.  We will preserve it and restore it to you whenever the danger
+shall be over.  Denmark refused.  Copenhagen was bombarded, and 
+gallantly defended, but the fleet was seized."  Everywhere the conduct
+of England was censured; and the name even of the negotiator who
+was employed by her, who was subsequently the minister near this
+government, was scarcely ever pronounced here without coupling with
+it an epithet indicating his participation in the disgraceful transaction. 
+And yet we are going to sanction acts of violence, committed by
+ourselves, which but too much resemble it!  What an important
+difference, too, between the relative condition of England and of this
+country!  She, perhaps, was struggling for her existence.  She was
+combating, single-handed, the most enormous military power that the
+world has ever known.  With whom were we contending?  With a few
+half-starved, half-clothed, wretched Indians and fugitive slaves.  And
+while carrying on this inglorious war, inglorious as regards the laurels
+or renown won in it, we violate neutral rights, which the government
+had solemnly pledged itself to respect, upon the principle of
+convenience, or upon the light presumption that, by possibility, a post
+might be taken by this miserable combination of Indians and slaves....
+
+I will not trespass much longer upon the time of the committee;
+but I trust I shall be indulged with some few reflections upon the
+danger of permitting the conduct on which it has been my painful duty
+to animadvert, to pass without the solemn expression of the
+disapprobation of this House.  Recall to your recollection the free
+nations which have gone before us.  Where are they now?
+
+"Gone glimmering through the dream of  things that were,
+A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour."
+
+And how have they lost their liberties?  If we could transport
+ourselves back to the ages when Greece and Rome flourished in their
+greatest prosperity, and, mingling in the throng, should ask a Grecian
+if he did not fear that some daring military chieftain, covered with
+glory, some Philip or Alexander, would one day overthrow the liberties
+of his country, the confident and indignant Grecian would exclaim,
+No! no! we have nothing to fear from our heroes; our liberties will be
+eternal.  If a Roman citizen had been asked if he did not fear that the
+conqueror of Gaul might establish a throne upon the ruins of public
+liberty, he would have instantly repelled the unjust insinuation.  yet
+Greece fell; Caesar passed the Rubicon, and the patriotic arm even of
+Brutus could not preserve the liberties of his devoted country!  The
+celebrated Madame de Stael, in her last and perhaps her best work,
+has said, that in the very year, almost the very month, when the
+president of the Directory declared that monarchy would never more
+show its frightful head in France, Bonaparte, with his grenadiers,
+entered the palace of St. Cloud, and, dispersing with the bayonet the
+deputies of the people deliberating on the affairs of the State, laid the
+foundation of that vast fabric of despotism which overshadowed all
+Europe.  I hope not to be misunderstood; I am far from intimating that
+General Jackson cherishes any designs inimical to the liberties of the 
+country.  I believe his intentions to be pure and patriotic.  I thank God
+that he would not, but I thank him still more that he could not if he
+would, overturn the liberties of the Republic.  But precedents, if bad,
+are fraught with the most dangerous consequences.  Man has been
+described, by some of those who have treated of his nature, as a bundle
+of habits.  The definition is much truer when applied to governments. 
+Precedents are their habits.  There is one important difference between
+the formation of habits by an individual and by governments.  He
+contracts only after frequent repetition.  A single instance fixes the
+habit and determines the direction of governments.  Against the
+alarming doctrine of unlimited discretion in our military commanders
+when applied even to prisoners of war, I must enter my protest.  It
+begins upon them; it will end on us.  I hope our happy form of
+government is to be perpetual.  But, if it is to be preserved, it must be
+by the practice of virtue, by justice, by moderation, by magnanimity,
+by greatness of soul, by keeping a watchful and steady eye on the
+Executive; and, above all, by holding to a strict accountability the
+military branch of the public force.
+
+We are fighting a great moral battle for the benefit not only of
+our country, but of all mankind.  The eyes of the whole world are in
+fixed attention upon us.  One, and the larger portion of it, is gazing
+with contempt, with jealousy, and with envy; the other portion, with
+hope, with confidence, and with affection.  Everywhere the black cloud
+of legitimacy is suspended over the world, save only one bright spot,
+which breaks out from the political hemisphere of the West, to
+enlighten and animate and gladden the human heart.  Obscure that by
+the downfall of liberty here, and all mankind are enshrouded in a pall
+of universal darkness.   To you, Mr. Chairman, belongs the high
+privilege of transmitting, unimpaired, to posterity the fair character and
+liberty of our country.  Do you expect to execute this high trust by
+trampling, or suffering to be trampled down, law, justice, the
+Constitution, and the rights of the people?  by exhibiting examples of
+inhumanity and cruelty and ambition?  When the minions of despotism
+heard, in Europe, of the seizure of Pensacola, how did they chuckle,
+and chide the admirers of our institutions, tauntingly pointing to the
+demonstration of a spirit of injustice and aggrandizement made by our
+country, in the midst of an amicable negotiation!  Behold, said they,
+the conduct of those who are constantly reproaching kings!  You saw
+how those admirers were astounded and hung their heads.  you saw,
+too, when that illustrious man, who presides over us, adopted his
+pacific, moderate, and just course, how they once more lifted up their
+heads with exultation and delight beaming in their countenances.  And
+you saw how those minions themselves were finally compelled to unite
+in the general praises bestowed upon our government.  Beware how
+you forfeit this exalted character.  Beware how you give a fatal
+sanction, in this infant period of our Republic, scarcely yet twoscore
+years old, to military insubordination.  Remember that Greece had her
+Alexander, Rome her Caesar, England her Cromwell, France her
+Bonaparte, and that if we would escape the rock on which they split
+we must avoid their errors. 
+
+How different has been the treatment of General Jackson and
+that modest, but heroic young man, a native of one of the smallest
+States in the Union, who achieved for his country, on Lake Erie, one
+of the most glorious victories of the late war.  In a moment of passion
+he forgot himself and offered an act of violence which was repented of
+as soon as perpetrated.  He was tried, and suffered the judgment to be
+pronounced by his peers.  Public justice was thought not even then to
+be satisfied.  The press and Congress took up the subject.  My
+honorable friend from Virginia, Mr. Johnson, the faithful and
+consistent sentinel of the law and of the Constitution, disapproved in
+that instance, as he does in this, and moved an inquiry.  The public
+mind remained agitated and unappeased until the recent atonement, so
+honorably made by the gallant commodore.  And is there to be a
+distinction between the officers of the two branches of the public
+service?  Are former services, however eminent, to preclude even
+inquiry into recent misconduct?  Is there to be no limit, no prudential
+bounds to the national gratitude?  I am not disposed to censure the
+President for not ordering a court of inquiry, or a general court-martial. 
+Perhaps, impelled by a sense of gratitude, he determined, by
+anticipation, to extend to the general that pardon which he had the
+undoubted right to grant after sentence.  Let us not shrink from our
+duty.  Let us assert our constitutional powers, and vindicate the
+instrument from military violation.
+
+I hope gentlemen will deliberately survey the awful isthmus on
+which we stand.  They may bear down all opposition; they may even
+vote the general the public thanks; they may carry him triumphantly
+through this House.  But, if they do, in my humble judgment, it will be
+a triumph of the principle of insubordination, a triumph of the military
+over the civil authority, a triumph over the powers of this House, a
+triumph over the Constitution of the land.  And I pray most devoutly
+to Heaven that it may not prove, in its ultimate effects and
+consequences, a triumph over the liberties of the people.
+
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+The Project Gutenberg Etext of Henry Clay's Remarks Before The
+House and Senate of the United States of America Parts 1 and 2
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