 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1898 - 268 pages
...growing. This, said he, is our pride and danger — our weakness and our strength. . . . Let us then . . . bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. — Annals of Congress, XXX, pp. 851-856. At about the same time, February 8, 1817, the House used... | |
 | 1900 - 1020 pages
...resources to them. Good roads and canals, judiciously laid out, are the proper remedy. Let us, then, bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. The first great object is to perfect the communication from Maine to Louisiana. This may bo fairly... | |
 | Louie Regina Heller - 1902 - 236 pages
...Nothing — not even dissimilarity of language — tends more to estrange man from man. Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of...travel of the centre ; it is thus that a citizen of the West0 will read the news of Boston still moist from the press. The mail and the press are the nerves... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1902 - 638 pages
...rapidly growing. . . . This is our pride and our danger, our weakness and our strength. Let us then bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals ; let us conquer space." Speaking of the constitutional question, he said he was "no advocate for refined arguments on the constitution.... | |
 | Jeremiah Simeon Young - 1902 - 118 pages
...impedes the intercourse of the extremes with this center of the Republic ( weakens the Union. Let us then bind the Republic together with a perfect ' system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. 1 Messages and Papers of tht Presidents, Vol. I, p. 567. 1 Ibid., p. 576. ^ Annals, 141h Cong., 2d... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1905 - 480 pages
...extremes with the centre of the republic weakens the Union," and that it was the duty of Congress to "bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals." Henry Clay, however, had been the real father of the scheme, and he never deserted his offspring. March... | |
 | Kendric Charles Babcock - 1906 - 370 pages
...improve the rivers for interstate commerce. It was the duty of Congress, said Calhoun, in 1817, to "bind the republic together with a perfect system...roads and canals. Let us conquer space. ... It is thus that a citizen of the West will read the news of Boston still moist from the press. The mail and the... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1906 - 264 pages
...growing. This, said he, is our pride and danger — our weakness and our strength. . . . Let us then . . . bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. — Annals of Congress, XXX, pp. 851-856. At about the same time, February 8, 1817, the House used... | |
 | Ellwood Wadsworth Kemp - 1908 - 384 pages
...Nothing — not even dissimilarity of language — tends more to estrange man from man. Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of...republic will be brought within a few days' travel of the center ; it is thus that a citizen of the West will read the news of Boston still moist from the press.... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 pages
...greatest of all calamities — next to the loss of liberty — . . . disunion. . . . Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. . . .If, however, neglecting them [our advantages], we permit a low, sordid, selfish and sectional... | |
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Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. 
