12/26/1834
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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."
"I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforcement."
"In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the greatest attainable good for our common country I feel that I may trust to your cord..."
"I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law."