Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, on the Resolution Offered by Him on the 29th December, 1829, on the Subject of the Public Lands: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 20th May, 1830 This debate will form a coinpendious history of the policy of our Government, from its commencement for a half century, its progress in the arts as well as in arms, its trials; and its triumphsp It has exposed the machina tions and plots which have been' formed against it; and their latent causes.' It has shown with what perfect ease the majesty of the laws has been maintained, and the Cog stitution preserved from every insidious as, well as open attack and has demonstrated the correctness of mrl'jef ferson's opinion, that error may safely be tolerated while reason is left free to combat it. It has disappoint ed the hopes of the enemies of our republican form of go vernment, and-furnished additional evidence, that man is capable of self government. 'and, although in the ardor of debate, and in 'the r'latitude of discussion, 'sorne expressions have been used which savoured too much of personal hostility and sectional jealousy, it has'shown, that every difi'erence'of opinion is not a difference of principle 5? And that, notwithstanding all our prejudices, and all our jealousies, there' still exists, in every section Of the country, an attachment to our free institutions, ' to the Constitution, and 'to the union of the States, so sin cere, and $9 ardent, that we may, with pride and plea sure, proclaim to the world The Republic is safe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.