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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Cambreleng, (in Reply to Mr. McDuffie and Mr. Storrs, ) on the Proposition to Amend the Constitution of the United States, Respecting the Election of President and Vice President: Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1826
While Opposing the present -admimstration, it should have his support of every measure which, in his judg ment, would advance the public'interest; for the rest, the gentlemen on the other side should have an open. An honorable war. He would be candid with gentlemen; he could not judge every Administration by its mea sures In the language'of the great man whom he had just quoted, and who of all other men was, from experi ence, most able to instructus, he would say, he never knew men reformed byfpower. Neither would he make the experiment to discover, whether their measures would prove better than their morals. He could not, ifhe wished, extend his confidence to the gentlemen in power; it was something not to be controlled. He would say to them, with Lord Chatham, confidence is a plant ofslo'w growth, and moreover, differing from most plants of slow growth, it is of a delicate hature once blighted. It seldom revives; penitence may restore men to the bosom of private friendship, but in public af fairs it seldom happens. The pulsations ofa nation are slow - the career of ambition brief. Anadministration enjoying his support must bare the light of a Nation's confidence shining clearly and brightly around it - its foundation must rest upon-something more solid than a compromise of opinions, something less volcanic than an adjustment of ancient but unextinguished animosi ties.
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