A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States: Natural and Artificial, Present and Prospective Corrected and Improved from the Edition of 1826, and Much Enlarged, from Authentic Materials, Down to the Present Time ; with a Sheet Map, and Numerous Engraved Profiles ... ; the Map ... is Projected, on a Reduced Scale, from Tanner's ... Map of the United Statesauthor, printed by Lydia R. Bailey, 1830 - 617 pages |
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Page 509 - Its object was to balance the burdens upon native industry imposed by the operation of foreign laws, but not to aggravate the burdens of one section of the Union by the relief afforded to another. To the great principle sanctioned by that act — one of those upon which the Constitution itself was formed — I hope and trust the authorities of the Union will adhere.
Page 530 - Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama, that their attempt to establish an independent government would not be countenanced by the Executive of the United States; and advised them to emigrate beyond the Mississippi, or submit to the laws of those States.
Page 529 - Professing a desire to civilize and settle them, we have at the same time lost no opportunity to purchase their lands, and thrust them further into the wilderness. By this means they have not only been kept in a wandering state, but been led to look upon us as unjust and indifferent to their fate. Thus, though lavish in its expenditures upon the subject, Government has constantly defeated its own policy ; and the Indians, in general, receding further and further to the west, have retained their savage...
Page 531 - It is too late to inquire whether it was just in the United States to include them and their territory within the bounds of new States whose limits they could control. That step cannot be retraced. A State cannot be dismembered by Congress, or restricted in the exercise of her constitutional power.
Page 543 - Union, to assist the labors, increase the comforts, and enhance the enjoyments of individuals, the instruction acquired at West Point enlarges the dominion and expands the capacities of the mind. Its beneficial results are already experienced in the composition of the Army, and their influence is felt in the intellectual progress of society.
Page 542 - ... course of events may bring forth. Our advances in these concerted systems, have, for the last ten years, been steady and progressive; and in a few years more will be so completed as to leave no cause for apprehension that our sea coast will ever again offer a theatre of hostile invasion.
Page 529 - ... erect an independent government, within the limits of Georgia and Alabama. These States, claiming to be the only Sovereigns within their territories, extended their laws over the Indians j which induced the latter to call upon the United States for protection.
Page 523 - ... for which an appropriation is asked. " Your particular attention is requested to that part of the report of the secretary of war, which relates to the money held in trust for the Seneca tribe of Indians. It will be perceived that, without legislative aid, the executive...
Page 542 - ... immediately after the close of our last war, under the salutary experience which the events of that war had impressed upon our countrymen of its necessity. Introduced under the auspices of my immediate predecessor, it has been continued with the persevering and liberal encouragement of the Legislature ; and combined with corresponding exertions for the gradual increase and improvement of the Navy, prepares for our extensive country a condition of defence adapted to any critical emergency which...