Download or read book Speech of Hon. I. E. Holmes, of S. Carolina, on the Texas Boundary written by Isaac Edward Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Hon. I. E. Holmes, of S. Carolina, on the Texas Boundary: Delivered in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, September 3, 1850 See that our fathers acted unphilosophically. They should have made all Federal legislation conform to the principles of the Revolution. The govern ment from which we were emerging into a new form was a government of our Revolution - a Revolution with which all our ideas and sentiments were closely allied That Revolution commenced and proceeded upon the idea, that the functions of government should be employed in proteeting ih dividuals and States in the exercise of their ener gies, and the utmost expansion of their industrial faculties. 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.