Mr. Webster's Speech on Mr. Ewing's Resolution to Rescind the Treasury Order of July 11, 1836: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 21, 1836 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Mr. Webster's Speech on Mr. Ewing's Resolution to Rescind the Treasury Order of July 11, 1836: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 21, 1836

But, sir, what have been the gentleman's own opinions on this subject heretofore? Has he always been of Opinion that the Secretary enjoyed this power of selec tion, as he now calls it, under the law of 1816? Has he heretofore looked upon the various provisions of that law only as so many moveable and shifting parts, to be thrown into gear and out of gear by the mere touch of the Secretary's hand 'certainly, sir, he has not thought so; certainly he has looked upon that law as fixed, definite, and beyond Executive power, as clearly as other laws as a statute, to be repealed or modified only by another statute. No longer ago than the 23d day of last April, the honorable member introduced a resolution into the Senate, in the following words: Resolved, That, from and after the day of in the year 1836, nothing but gold and silver coin ought to be received in payment for public lands; and that the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to report a bill accordingly.

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