...transportation saying that "whatever impedes the intercourse of the extremes . . .weakens the union Let us bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space."4 Calhoun spoke from personal experience. His father, Patrick Calhoun, had led a band of settlers...

...Standing squarely (he believed) on the president's platform, Calhoun announced in the House his desire to "bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals." His rhetoric conjured up earlier nationalists' dreams of orderly design; but unlike the Gallatin Plan...

...legislative program of federally financed internal improvements, seeking, in the words of Calhoun, "to 'bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals' " (Onuf 1993: 341 ). But they ran headlong into the opposition of Republicans devoted to Jeffersonian...

...and danger — our weakness and our strength." He added in a rhetorical flourish, "Let us then . . . bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." He warned against a "sordid, selfish, and sectional spirit," and he called for "enlarged views" in...

...water into New York harbor. South Carolina's powerful spokesman John C. Calhoun says (in 1816), "Let us bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." Roman roads cemented an empire. The Aztecs built good roads in America, but their skills were lost....

...disappears into the picturesque, and the foundation story reemerges. "Let Us Conquer Space" Let us ... bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. —JohnC. Calhoun, 1817 1 The age has an engine, but no engineer. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1853 2 These...

...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 mus that a citizen of the West will read the news of Boston still moist from the press....

...party approached Congress where no less an advocate than John C. Calhoun cried, "Let us then . . . bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." Of course, every congressman wanted to dip in this pork barrel while brushing away hands from other...

...improvements for nationalistic reasons. "Let us, then," he told Congress in 1815, "bind the nation together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." Presidents Madison and Monroe were constrained by their strictconstructionist constitutional principles...

...technocrats won the day with then-House of Representatives member John C. Calhoun's cry: Let us ... bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. 12 The final act in America's foundation story was irrigation, according to Nye. Irrigation made it...