When we regard, then, the great length of time which this war has been prosecuted, the complete success which has attended it in favor of the Provinces, the present condition of the parties, and the utter inability of Spain to produce any change in it, we are compelled to conclude that its fate is settled, and that the Provinces which have declared their independence and are in the enjoyment of it ought to be recognized.
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I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.
To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.
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.
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