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May 14, 1831
New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
The Boston Courier sarcastically responds to a Richmond Enquirer report of a conversation with the President, who welcomes frank objections, and urges him to resign for the nation's benefit.
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A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer—a regular manufacturer of humbuggery— reports a conversation with the " man who neither seeks nor declines office," in which he says-" The President remarked that nothing gave him more unfeigned pleasure, than for his friends frankly and openly to state to him, at all times, any objections they might have to his course upon any and every point. That he estimated them the more highly, the more unreserved and frank they were with him." We shall stand high in his estimation, for his most exorbitant friends have not been half so frank. He shall be welcome to all the consolatory paragraphs we have written since he was deserted; and we, moreover, frankly and disinterestedly inform him, that if he would now resign the chair of State, which he has occupied without honor to himself or his country, he would perform an act, the splendor of which would eclipse all his military glory, and give him a claim to the nation's eternal gratitude. Let him do this, and show that his professed devotion to the principles of reform is not arrant knavery and dissimulation.--Boston Courier.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Presidential Resignation
Political Commentary
Frank Objections
Reform Principles
What entities or persons were involved?
President
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President
Event Details
A Boston Courier editorial mocks a Richmond Enquirer report of the President's welcoming of frank objections from friends and urges him to resign the presidency to demonstrate true reform principles and earn national gratitude.