Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Webster, of Mass;, In the House of Representatives, on the Panama Mission: Delivered on the 14th April, 1826 By voting the salaries, in the ordinary way, we assume, as it seems to me, no responsibility What ever. We merely empower another branch of the government to discharge its own appropriate du ties, in that mode which seems to itself most con ducive to the public interests. We are, by so vot ing, no more responsible for the manner in which the negotiation shall he conducted, than we are for the manner in which one of the Heads of Depart ment may discharge the duties of his office. 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.