04/22/1830
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"It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an unlimited power over the subject of internal improvements."
"It gives me pleasure to congratulate you upon your return to the seat of Government for the purpose of discharging your duties to the people of the United States."
"If those which are clearly granted shall be found incompetent to the ends of its creation, it can at any time apply for their enlargement; and there is no probability that such an application, if foun..."
"Although the pestilence which had traversed the Old World has entered our limits and extended its ravages over much of our land, it has pleased Almighty God to mitigate its severity and lessen the num..."