Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. John Bell: Delivered at Vauxhall Garden, Nashville, on the 23rd of May, 1835It is now for the first time in the history of free States solemnly proposed and seriously attempted, to give an or ganized and systematic party action to the government, under the plausible but delusive pretext that it is necessary, in order to preserve the great objects for which the Government was formed. I regard this plan to defeat the free and natural operation of our system - to transfer that allegiance of the citizen to a party, which is due only to his country - to cre ate a code of laws and regulations which shall control the legal and constitutional mode of elections - or, in other words, through a regular installation of party, to surrender the liberty and institutions of the country to the absolute control of the great enemy of free States - as the most dar ing, and at the same time the most dangerous conception of the age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.