When we view the great blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow.
Second Annual Message
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To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.
I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with documents, which contains the information requested.
A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement.
On the perusal of the document called for I find that it communicates a difference of opinion between Mr. Russell and a majority of his colleagues in certain transactions which occurred in the negotiations at Ghent.
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