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THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS tion? Times almost without number. During the present session he has sent in a message, in re- gard to the land bill, in which he has charged it with an undisguised violation. A violation so palpable that it is not even disguised, and must, therefore, necessarily imply a criminal intent. Sir, the advisers of the president, whoever they are, deceive him and themselves. They have vainly supposed that, by an appeal to the peo- ple, and an exhibition of the wounds of the presi- dent, they could enlist the sympathies and the commiseration of the people — that the name of Andrew Jackson would bear down the Senate and all opposition. They have yet to learn, what they will soon learn, that even a good and re- sponsible name may be used so frequently, as an indorser, that its credit and the public con- fidence in its solidity have been seriously im- paired. They mistake the intelligence of the people, who are not prepared to see and sanc- tion the president putting forth indiscriminate charges of a violation of the Constitution against whomsoever he pleases, and exhibiting un- measured rage and indignation when his own infallibility is dared to be questioned. 94