Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging ResolutionBenton, Thomas Hart
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Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution
Benton, Thomas Hart
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845; United States -- Politics and government -- 1837-1841
And now, sir, I finish the task which, three years ago, I imposed on
myself. Solitary and alone, and amid the jeers and taunts of my
opponents, I put this ball in motion. The people have taken it up, and
rolled it forward, and I am no longer anything but a unit in the vast
mass which now propels it. In the name of that mass I speak. I demand
the execution of the edict of the people; I demand the expurgation of
that sentence which the voice of a few Senators, and the power of their
confederate, the Bank of the United States, has caused to be placed on
the journal of the Senate; and which the voice of millions of freemen
has ordered to be expunged from it.
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