Letter From B.W. Leigh, Esq. to the General Assembly of Virginia

Leigh, B.W. [Andrew Jackson]

Published by no publisher, [No place, 1836

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Disbound pamphlet. Octavo. 15pp. Very good or better. Leigh's letter, directed to Stafford H. Parker, Speaker of the Senate and Linn Banks, Speaker of the House of Delegates, of Virginia, strongly objects to an order from the Virginia Assembly, that he reverse his opinion regarding a U.S. Senate resolution, or resign his seat. The U.S. Senate had taken issue with President Jackson's actions "exerting a control over the public deposits, by causing them to be withheld and withdrawn, on his own responsibility, from the United States Bank, in which they had been ordered to be placed by the act of Congress chartering the said bank." This precedent was considered by the Senate to be "a dangerous and alarming assumption of power by that officer, which cannot be too strongly condemned." The Virginia Assembly, in siding with the President, and in ordering Leigh to reverse his vote or resign his seat was, in his opinion, violating his independence as an elected official. Seller Inventory # 357775

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Title: Letter From B.W. Leigh, Esq. to the General ...

Publisher: no publisher, [No place

Publication Date: 1836

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good