Corwin Speech Congressional Globe Ed. WRE Apr 11
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- Title
- Corwin Speech Congressional Globe Ed. WRE Apr 11
- Author
- William Jennings Bryan
- Publication year listed
- 1847
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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Corwin Speech Congressional Globe Ed. WRE Apr 11
Author: Senator Thomas Corwin (1794-1865)
Year: 1847
This speech survived, abridged by William Jennings Bryan in 1906 for his anthology, The World's Famous Orations , further excerpted by Daniel Walker Howe in 1973 for The American Whigs , and further abridged by LawReader for its website in about 2003. The following version is the unabridged original, edited and set by unknown clerks in the tiny agate type of the Congressional Globe , or as close to the original as it is now possible to get. I have added footnotes and numbered the paragraphs. Double square brackets [[ ]] enclose any additions made by me. The speech has been quotable on current events at least since the 1960s, and in 2012, when this edition was completed, the paragraphs that seemed most relevant were still #6 and 7, #54 and 55, and #73 and #74. The reader may still be startled by Corwin’s evidence in paragraphs #42-50 that President Polk misrepresented the Mexican situation to get the U.S. into war. Senator Thomas Corwin was born in Kentucky in 1794 into a family that moved to Ohio when he was 4. He was elected Representative in Congress as a Whig in 1831, Governor of Ohio in 1840, and United States Senator in 1845. Fillmore appointed him Secretary of the Treasury in
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