A History of the Whig Party Or Some of Its Main Features With a Hurried Glance
A History of the Whig Party Or Some of Its Main Features With a Hurried Glance
Robert Mck Robert Mckinley Ormsby
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Although possessing great energy, much information, and re- markable vigor of intellect, his judgment was never considered reliable. He lacked that balance of mind, and those commanding reasoning organs, which bestow upon their possessor a sound judgment. Mr. Eandolph continued a warm supporter of Jeffer- son, until the introduction of a non-intercourse resolu- tion in 1806 ; from which period, until after the settle- ment of our foreign difficulties, he opposed the principal measures of the ad...ministration. He seemed almost a monomaniac in regard to England. France and the French emperor he looked upon with the impatience of the deepest hatred ; and England he admired as the champion of civilization. When war was talked of, his indignation at the mention of such a measure was not exceeded by that of Mr. Quincy. The power of Britain, with her thousand ships-of-war, was paraded before congressional audiences in terrible contrast with America and some ten or dozen ill-appointed vessels. The fact, too, that the United States had been for years at peace, and had no army, no discipline, no material at hand, while England had navies, disciplined and veteran armies, and all the appliances of war at her ready com- mand, was enlarged upon, and dreadful consequences predicted in case this country should presume to em- bark in a war with the mistress of the ocean.
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