And in an especial manner appropriations have been made to aid internal improvements of varioms sorts. in our roads. our navigation. our streams. and other objects of a national character and importance. Jim some cases. not silently. but upon discussion. Congress have gone the length of making appropriations to aid destitute foreigners and cities laboring under severe calamities. as in the relief of the Saint Domingo refugees in 1794. and the citizens of Venezuela. who suffered from an earthquake in 1812. An illustration equally forcible. of a donestic character. is in the bounty given in the codfisheries. which was strenuously resisted on constitutional grounds in 1792. but which still maintains its place in the statutebook of the United States. In a later edition he gives a note to this. in which he says: It would be impracticable to enumerate all these various objects of appropriation in detail.
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