No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel.
Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval a Joint Resolution for the Admission of the Territories...
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This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon.
Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms suitable for conversion into manufactured articles.\
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