It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and domestic, which Congress might designate.
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Herewith I inclose, for constitutional action of the Senate thereon should it approve the same, supplemental articles of agreement made and concluded with the authorities of the Delaware Indians on the 21st July last, with a view to the…
Before accepting this proposition I have thought it right to take the advice of the Senate.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
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