A Letter To Mr Harrison Gray Otis A Member Of The Senate Of Massachusetts On The Present State Of Our National Affairs With Remarks Upon Mr T Pickerings Letter To The Governor Of The Commonwealth Classic Reprint

Author : John Quincy Adams
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ISBN 13 : 9781333078348
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, a Member of the Senate of Massachusetts, on the Present State of Our National Affairs, Vol. 3 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, a Member of the Senate of Massachusetts, on the Present State of Our National Affairs, Vol. 3: With Remarks Upon Mr. Pickering's Letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth It is undoubtedly the right, and may often become the duty of a State Legislature, to address that of the Nation, with the expression of its wishes, in regard to interests peculiarly concerning the State itself. Nor shall I question the right of every member of the great federative compact to declare its own sense of measa ures interesting to the nation at large. But whenever the case occurs that this sense should be clearly and emphatically expressed, it ought surely to be predi. Cated upon a full and impartial consideration of the whole subject - not under the stimulus of a one sided representation - far less upon the impulse of conjee tures and suspicions. It is not through the medium of personal sensibility, nor of party bias, nor of pro' fessional occupation, nor of geographical position, that the whole Trut/z can be discerned, of questions in v'olving the rights and interests of this extensive Union. When their discussion is urged 'upon a State Legisla ture, the first call upon its members should be to cast all their feelings and interests as the Citizens of a sin gle State into the common Stock of the National con. Cern. 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.