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It seems to have been Thomas Hart Benton speaking about John C. Calhoun:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JLpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34...

And you actually got the quote pretty close to correct:

"No, sir. When God Almighty lays his hand upon a man, sir, I take mine off, sir."



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