Judge Douglas--The Bill of Indictment : Speech By Carl Schurz ; Delivered At the Cooper Institute, New-York, Sept. 13, 1860
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Douglas in the Presidential chair, and give him as he demands, the power of the French Emperor, and he will furnish not the prudence, but certainly the arbitrariness.
But he contends that our Executive must liave that power, because the Executive of ecery other nation has it. Indeed! Does he not know that just there is the difference be- tween our system of government and those of other countries? (Cheers.) Did it never occur to him that the establishment of impe- rial power in this Republic wo...uld require the entire overthrow of our system of checks and balances? Does he not know that even in tlie liands of a British Premier, this power is less formidable than it would be in the liands of a President, since the British Premier is subject to the immediate control of a parlia- mentary majority, and liable to be voted down and dismissed at any moment, wfiich the President and his Secretary of State are not ?
Oh, "greatest of living stetesn^n," if thou dost not know that, every ^eet little school- boy can tell thee, daughter.) But there you see him, "in the fullness of his ignorance of this vast subject, in the maturity of his incapacity to apprehend its merits," (lal^h- t^ as Lord Brougham would style it," at- tSapting to trample down the constitutional safeguards which surround the liberties, and the security of the nation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Douglas in the Presidential chair, and give him as he demands, the power of the French Emperor, and he will furnish not the prudence, but certainly the arbitrariness.
But he contends that our Executive must liave that power, because the Executive of ecery other nation has it. Indeed! Does he not know that just there is the difference be- tween our system of government and those of other countries? (Cheers.) Did it never occur to him that the establishment of impe- rial power in this Republic wo...uld require the entire overthrow of our system of checks and balances? Does he not know that even in tlie liands of a British Premier, this power is less formidable than it would be in the liands of a President, since the British Premier is subject to the immediate control of a parlia- mentary majority, and liable to be voted down and dismissed at any moment, wfiich the President and his Secretary of State are not ?
Oh, "greatest of living stetesn^n," if thou dost not know that, every ^eet little school- boy can tell thee, daughter.) But there you see him, "in the fullness of his ignorance of this vast subject, in the maturity of his incapacity to apprehend its merits," (lal^h- t^ as Lord Brougham would style it," at- tSapting to trample down the constitutional safeguards which surround the liberties, and the security of the nation.
What to read after Judge Douglas--The Bill of Indictment : Speech By Carl Schurz ; Delivered At the Cooper Institute, New-York, Sept. 13, 1860?
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