 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending toward a total change of the pure republican character of our government, and to the concentration of all power...except when exerted in conformity with his will, by frequent and extraordinary exercise of the Executive veto. . . . fiy the 3d of March, 1837, if the... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending toward a total change of the pure republican character of our government, and to the concentration of all power...except when exerted in conformity with his will, by frequent and extraordinary exercise of the Executive veto. . . . By the 3,1 of March, 1837, if the... | |
 | George Rothwell Brown - United States - 1922 - 400 pages
...denounced the removal of the deposits and declared that the country was in the midst of a revolution, "rapidly tending towards a total change of the pure...concentration of all power in the hands of one man."/ In a speech* in which were raised constitutional questions which were to influence profoundly American... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 486 pages
...1832 Senate speech, Clay said of Jackson: "We are in the midst of a revolution, . . . tending rapidly towards a total change of the pure republican character...concentration of all power in the hands of one man." Gov. Erastus Root of New York, writing to congratulate Clay, asked: "When will the mad career of the... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 884 pages
...defied belief, thundered Clay in his first display of emotion. "We are in the midst of a revolution, hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending towards a...Government, and to the concentration of all power in the 39. Clay to Brooke, December 16, 1833, in Clay, Papers, VIII, 679. hands of one man." The President... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...are in the midst of a revolution," Henry Clay declared, "hitherto bloodless, but rapidly descending towards a total change of the pure republican character...the concentration of all power in the hands of one man."126 In 1834 Clay and his followers among National Republicans adopted the name "Whig," after the... | |
 | Michael F. Holt - History - 1999 - 1302 pages
...defined the opposition's platform in a ringing three-day speech. "We are in the midst of a revolution, hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending towards a...character of the Government, and to the concentration of power in the hands of one man," he warned the Senate. He demanded passage of two resolutions. One rejected... | |
 | Kimberly C. Shankman - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 152 pages
...revolution, hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending toward a total change in the pure republican character of government, and to the concentration of all power in the hands of one man."56 In this speech — and indeed throughout the course of Clay's opposition to Jackson — we... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 590 pages
...confirms lhis proposition. "We are in the midst of a revolution, hitherto bloodless," cried Henry Clay, "but rapidly tending towards a total change of the...concentration of all power in the hands of one man." In the years since The Age of Jackson, scholars have discerned competing visions of "republicanism"... | |
 | Julian E. Zelizer - Political Science - 2004 - 800 pages
...and John C. Calhoun, denounced Jackson's "open, palpable, and daring usurpation" as pointing toward "a total change of the pure republican character of...concentration of all power in the hands of one man." Senators Benton and Silas Wright and Chairman James K. Polk of the House Ways and Means Committee defended... | |
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WE are in the midst of a revolution, hitherto bloodless, but rapidly tending towards a total change of the pure republican character of the government, and to the concentration of all power in the hands of one man. 
