Remarks On The Character Of The Late Edward Everett

Author : Edward Everett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656731817
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Remarks of Mr. Edward Everett on the French Question, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 7th of February and 2d of March, 1835 written by Edward Everett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks of Mr. Edward Everett on the French Question, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the 7th of February and 2d of March, 1835: With the Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, on the Same Subject Mr. Everett continued: I was for acting as promptly and as boldlg as the gentleman. It was precisely a prompt and bold course whio I desired. I was not for war, nor reprisals, in the state of ad'airs then existing; and we are now told that neither of these measures was contemplated by any member of the House. What, then, could we have done promptly and boldly? We could have done this. We could have taken up the subject as one of eminent importance, ad mitting no delay in the consideration of the House. We could have shown the justice of the American side of the question in the strongest terms. We could have uttered the feeling and views of this House, in the strongest and most emphatic language. Having shown the justice of our claims, we could have expressed our resolute determination to stand upon our rights under the treaty. Our firm purpose not to relax one tittle, nor recede one inch, and we could have adduced the reasons, - and such reasons there were, which might be urged in support of the opinion, that France would yet do us justice. I would have had a report of this character, bold, firm, and pacific, and would have hoped for it the unanimous concurrence of this House. And here, sir, I. Should have been ia clined to amp. I would have had the rights of the country maintained, and our purpose never to recede from them asserted. But what Congress would do in the contingency, - somewhat distant of uccea sity, - never perhaps to arrive, I think I should not then have said. I would reserve my action on the contingency till it ceased to be one, and when that should be the case, then I would act promptly and vigorously, under the state of circumstances which should pre sent itself. But I should have been indisposed to anticipate that event, and would not, therefore, undertake to say what measures I 'would adopt, should it happen. But I would have asserted our rights so broadly and distinctly, as to leave me at full liberty to adopt any measure of redress, which circumstances unfortunately might render necessary. The same course I would pursue now, though, from the lapse of time, I do not think all the good would result from it which might have been hoped, from the' earlier action of the Committee. I agree with the Chairman of the Committee as to the character which the report must take. He says the Committee are not prepared to recommend any measure. I so understand it. In the present state of our information, nothing of the kind alluded to, under the name of a measure, can be recommended. And for this reason, I would still refrain from recommending any thing hypothetically, to be done' upon the happening of a contingency, because the varieties of circum stances, the shades of human action, public as well as private, are ia finitely too numerous to be foreseen. 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.