As soon as the movement assumed such a steady and consistent form as to make the success of the Provinces probable, the rights to which they were entitled by the law of nations as equal parties to a civil war were extended to them.
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That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.
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 transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.
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