Extravagant duties defeat their end and object, not only by exciting in the public mind an hostility to the manufacturing interests, but by inducing a system of smuggling on an extensive scale and the practice of every manner of fraud upon the revenue, which the utmost vigilance of Government can not effectually suppress.
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I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces of the United States
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For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
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