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to regard its action, than the motives to which it owes its parentage. That a congressional measure being adopted under the combined constitutional authorities, should be submitted to is believed to be the only safe doctrine; yet in a case of mere Presidential and Senatorial action, there might be objections to a decision as there are in the case of the exposure of our North Eastern Boundary. It seems at last to be the correct idea that a Tariff, although constitutional yet being for partial if not for national revenue, as if for iron in one place and hemp in another, upon an interested compromise between those who can turn the seate of party power, is not suitable to the original intent or present object of government. As to our manufactures in single families, there can be no doubt of their superlative utility, and of the propriety of evry practical inducement to their encouragement in evry family of the country, according to its taste for the useful or the ornamental.

Among the political provisions for preserving the health of out community, is that of Senatorial representation. By Senators in Congress we represent our aggregate and consolidated population and its common combined wants and demands It is, as you know the Senatorial representative who is to appear for us all against invasion of the sovereignty which belongs to our republic, and who is most especially required to resist the construction which might commence on the violence which might accomplish the overthrough of the principles on which our welfare may depend.

The recent election of a successor to the incumbent in the Presidential chair the election of one who is to command our army & navy, direct our negotiation with all the countries with whom we make treaties embracing the civilized world, and who dispenses the dangerous power that office seekers are corrupted with, calls on me to notice with a serious interest the vacancy which has occurred, and that which will