Discourse of the Life And Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
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To retain a seat in a deliberative assembly, and endurethe routine of daily sessions for months at a time; to take upon himselfa regular foreign mission, or even to accept the presidency itself, would, I firmly believe, have been most grating to his feelings. Of allbut the last we may speak with certainty. But if some difficultproposition was forced upon the public mind; if some extraordinaryemergency had presented itself; if he had been called upon to encountera national question of the first ...magnitude, from which others would haveshrunk, and which was susceptible of a definitive adjustment in a giventime, I believe he would have accepted the mission at once. Had Mr. Madison, on his election to the presidency, called him to the StateDepartment with a _carte blanche_ as to the terms and mode of settlingthe vexed questions which grew out of the Berlin and Milan decrees andthe British orders in council, I do not say that he would have accepteda seat in the cabinet of a statesman whose election to the presidency hehad opposed, --for I believe he would not; but, if he had accepted it, itis probable those questions which were afterwards discussed by Mr.
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