Farewell Address
03/03/1837
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Tested by these principles, the resolution of the Senate is wholly unauthorized by the Constitution, and in derogation of its entire spirit.
With this view, and for the reasons which have been stated, I do hereby solemnly protest against the aforementioned proceedings of the Senat...
Bound to the performance of this duty by the oath I have taken, by the strongest obligations of gratitude to the American people, and by the...
Without notice, unheard and untried, I thus find myself charged on the records of the Senate, and in a form hitherto unknown in our history,...