I submit to Congress the expediency of providing for individual cases of this description by special enactment, or of revising the act of May 1st, 1820, with a view to mitigate the rigor of its exclusions in favor of persons to whom charity now bestowed can scarcely discharge the debt of justice.
Adams proposes that Congress should consider special laws to help those unfairly excluded from receiving aid.
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I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.
I transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents desired by the resolution.
They comprise large and valuable acquisitions of territory, and they secure an adjustment of boundaries and give pledges of permanent peace between several tribes which had been long waging bloody wars against each other.
To conciliate the claim of the individual citizen to the enjoyment of personal liberty, with the effective obligation of private contracts, is the difficult problem to be solved by a law of bankruptcy.
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