...powerfully distance tends to break the sympathies of our nature. . . . Let us then .... bind the Kepublic together with a perfect system of roads and canals....conquer space. It is thus the most distant parts of the Eepublic will be brought within a few days travel of the centre; it is thus that a citizen of the West...

...greatest of all calamities next to the loss of liberty, disunion. . . . Let us View of Cincinnati in 1825 bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. . . . Let us conquer space." 340. Failure Calhoun's Bonus Bill was vetoed by President Madison on tiona1 policy, his last day of...

...by Calhoun, and by the increasing number of "nationalists." "Congress," said Calhoun in 1817, must "bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." And again, "Whatever impedes the intercourse of the extremes with this, the center of the Republic,...

...improvements, Bank, war measures and all, and Calhoun had been a union man endeavoring, as he said, to " bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals." It was a tactical blunder for Calhoun to raise the question ; for it gave Webster a reason for showing...

...even dissimilarity of language, tends more to estrange man from man. Let us then, said Mr. Calhoun, 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....

...by Calhoun, and by the increasing number of "nationalists." "Congress," said Calhoun in 1817, must "bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space." And again, "Whatever impedes the intercourse of the extremes with this, the center of the Republic,...

...deliberating, in, this respect, deserves the most serious consideration. . . . Let us then, said Mr. Calhoun, bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space. ... So situated, said he, blessed with a form of Government at once combining liberty and strength,...

...clause of the constitution in favor of such improvements. He considered it the duty of Congress to "bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.'' He exclaimed that the very extent of the country "exposes us to the greatest of all calamities,—next...

...Calhoun, Works of, edited by Richard K. Cralle. Vol. II. p. 190. said, "it is the duty of Congress to bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals. It is thus that a citizen of the West will read rj the news of Boston still moist from the press."...

...Eight years after Gallatin's report was made, Calhoun, believing that it was the duty of Congress "to bind the Republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals," brought in a bill providing funds to be used for internal improvements, that is, for the improvement...