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Excerpt from The Election of President of the United States, Considered: Addressed to the People
Mr. Crawford's advocates had, from the beginning, claimed for him an extiaordinary love of economy and retrenchment, and in their vehement affection for the people's welfare, and for their own and their patron's popularity, had christened themselves radicals while they charged the Government, the departments in almost every a', h1aneh the navy, and especially the army, with being prodigal and corrupt to the very core. The President himself was not spared; and one of the champions of radical reform, and of Mr. Craw ford, declared on the floor of Congress, that Mr. Monroe came in unanimously, and would go out unanimous ly In these bold and unprincipled attacks, they were several times in the session vigorously resisted and signally overthrown. A large majority in the house of Representatives, however anxious to pay the national debt, and to save the resources of the country, could not be brought entirely to disband the army, though it was greatly reduced, nor to discontinue the fortifications, and lose the millions already expended upon them; the memory of the defenceless state of our coast, and of the enormous waste of life and treasure during the last war, was still too recent, to suffer such flimsy pro positions to prevail. 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.
