It is quite clear from its terms that the President was authorized to provide 'for the safe-keeping, support, and removal' of these negroes up till the time of their delivery to the agent on the coast of Africa, but no express provision was made for their protection and support after they had reached the place of their destination.
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It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very serious detriment.
It was wise to make a provision which would enable the President to avoid a total suspension of business in the interval, and equally wise so to limit the Executive discretion as to prevent any serious abuse of it.
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.
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