Two Speeches Delivered in the New York State Convention September 1824 With
Two Speeches Delivered in the New York State Convention September 1824 With
Charles G Charles Glidden Haines
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Under his admi- nistration this law would be passed. So thought the majori- ty of the convention ; and no appeal, no menace had yet touched their hearts with compunction or fear. But, said Mr. Haines, this convention has not been govern- ed in its preference by these considerations alone. It is not Mr. Clinton's early republican principles, — his energy, con- sistency, and effectual services during the late war, and his long and persevering support of that great common cause here spoken of so f...requently, that alone carry along a sweep- ing majority in his favour. Claims are preferred to our con- fidence and support, derived from other sources. For five years he administered the government of New-York, and if the existence of states and commonwealths had ever afforded a period on which the human mind delighted to repose for example, for instruction, and delight, the administration of Mr. Clinton presented such an era. Agriculture, the foun- dation of national wealth and national strength, cherished and advanced ; commerce, inland trade, and exchange promoted on a magnificent scale ; the useful arts and mechanical inge- nuity extensively fostered ; laws amended and improved ; seminaries of learning built up — new foundations laid and old ones extended ; common schools augmented in number and elementary instruction diffused ; benevolent and humane insti- tutions countenanted and cherished ; public expenditures great- ly reduced, by changing the mode of administering crimi- nal justice, and by other improvements ; talents sought out and rewarded ; party hostility and political persecution set at defiance ; the proscription lists of faction disregarded ; and above all, the union of the states, the alliance of the east and the west, rendered more firm and lasting.
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