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In withholding the facts concerning the regulations of trade with Guadaloupe and Martinique, he accuses Adams of assuming undue power and denounces him even more bitterly in regard to the Panama congress. Mr. Adams had appointed delegates without the consent of the senate. Mr. Branch submitted the resolution protesting against the presidents right to do this. "When I connect this open usurpation, this wanton trespass on the form of government under which we live with the covert and insidious innovations which gave existence to and characterizes the conduct of the present chief magistrate, I am decidedly of the opinion that every friend of his country should be at his post."
For his hostility to the administration he seemed to Jackson to be a strong man for a cabinet position. He was

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147 In withholding the facts concerning the regulations of trade with Guadaloupe and Martinique, he accuses Adams of assuming undue power and denounces him even more bitterly in regard to the Panama congress. Mr. Adams had appointed delegates without the consent of the senate. Mr. Branch submitted the resolution protesting against the presidents right to do this. "When I connect this open usurpation, this wanton trespass on the form of government under which we live with the covert and insidious innovations which gave existence to and characterizes the conduct of the present chief magistrate, I am decidedly of the opinion that every friend of his country should be at his post." For his hostility to the administration he seemed to Jackson to be a strong man for a cabinet position. He was