tions, if you think you will receive, as you will not, forty or fifty millions of new importations, how do you expect to meet this demand? It is true, the times favor and support the hope of getting along for a little while under the present system. The high price of iron in England keeps up the price of that article here, whilst the famine in Ireland, and the general scarcity in other parts of Europe, augment the exportation of American produce. But, looking to the end, I entertain a confident opinion that the importations of the country will not reach such an amount as will make good the loss sustained by the destruction of the tariff of 1842; and if such importation should take place, and the people of the United States were foolish enough to purchase foreign commodities to that extent, what must be the consequences? Why, that our exports would not pay for our imports, and the country would be drained of specie. This seems to me inevitable; and derangement of the currency and pressure in commercial affairs must follow. I now take my leave of the company and of the occasion, by returning thanks to the ladies who have honored me, and all of us, by attending this meeting. If they have not received pleasure, they have fulfilled, so far, the duty and destiny of the sex in conferring it. If the audience immediately before me have sometimes felt that their ears were weary, their eyes, nev. ertheless, have been always pleased. They may well rejoice in the prosperity of happy homes and a happy country, and in the innumerable blessings which Providence has vouchsafed to pour upon us. Who is there — are there any?-who can look back with more pleasure and honest pride upon the history of the past? Who is there, in any part of the earth, that can contemplate the present circumstances which surround them with more satisfaction than one of this goodly land? And where are there fathers and mothers, who can look forward with higher or better hopes for the happiness of their children, and their children's children, than the fathers and mothers now before me? Let us soften political duties and political differences by surrounding them with friendly associations and kind feelings; and while the fathers and the sons, through successive generations, shall, with manly strength, uphold the pillars of the state, may those pillars be ornamented by the grace and beauty of mothers and daughters! THE following is the bill alluded to by Mr. Webster as having been vetoed by Mr. Polk. The articles to which the letter J. is prefixed are such as had been partly provided for by appropriations under General Jackson's administration. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a sum of money be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, sufficient for the following purposes, viz.: 1836. J. For the continuation of the breakwater structure at . $15,000 1836. J. For the continuation of the breakwater structure at Plattsburg, on Lake Champlain, . 1836. J. For the repairs and working of the steam dredge, For the improvement of the Harbor at Port Ontario, 15,000 9,000 40,000 1831. J. For the improvement of the Harbor at Oswego, on Lake Ontario,. 10,000 1830. J. For the improvement of Big Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario, . 5,000 For the improvement of Little Sodus Bay, on Lake 5,000 1830. J. For the improvement of the Harbor at the mouth of the Genesee River, on Lake Ontario, 10,000 1836. J. For the improvement of the Oak Orchard Harbor, State of New York, . 7,000 For the construction of a dredge boat, for Lake 20,000 1831. J. For repairing and improving the Harbor at Buffalo, on Lake Erie, and the continuation of the seawall for the protection of the same, 1830. J. For improving the Harbor at Dunkirk, on Lake Erie, . $50,000 15,000 1830. J. 1832. J. 1830. J. For improving the Harbor at Erie, on Lake Erie, 40,000 100,000 10,000 20,000 1830. J. For improving the Harbor at Huron, on Lake Erie, For improving the Harbor at Sandusky City, on Lake Erie, 5,000 11,000 1836. J. For improving the River Raisin Harbor, on Lake Erie, 13,000 1836. J. For constructing a dredge boat to be used on Lake Erie, 20,000 1836. J. For the improvement of the St. Clair Flats, so called, so as to prevent their obstructing the passage of vessels from Buffalo to the ports on Lake Michigan,. 40,000 1830. J. For improving the Grand River Harbor, on Lake Michigan, so as to give protection to vessels sailing on said lake, 10,000 For improving the Harbor at the mouth of Kalama- 10,000 1836. J. For improving the Harbor at St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan, 10,000 1831. J. For improving the Harbor at Michigan City, on 1836. J. For improving the Harbor at Milwaukie, on Lake Michigan, 20,000 1836. J. For improving the Harbor at Chicago, on Lake Michigan, 12,000 For constructing a dredge boat, to be used on Lake Michigan, 15,000 1836. J. For improving the Harbor at St. Louis, $75,000 1836. J. For continuing the works at Bridgeport, Connect- 15,000 For removing the obstruction at the Crook in the 5,000 1830. J. 1830. J. 1830. J. For improving the Harbor at New Castle, Delaware, 15,000 5,000 75,000 For removing obstructions in Newark Bay, New 15,000 1836. J. For improving the Harbor at Baltimore City, 20,000 For the improvement of the Harbor at Havre de 20,000 1832. J. For the improvement of Savannah Harbor and the Naval Anchorage, near Fort Pulaski, 50,000 1832. J. For the improvement of the Great Wood Hole Har- 1837. J. For the improvement of the Ohio River, above the 1831. J. For removing the Raft of Red River, and for the improvement of said river, For repairs and preservation of harbor works here- 1,450 75,000 80,000 . 240,000 80,000 20,000 No. II. - Page 343. List of Objects of Internal Improvement for which Appropriations had been made under preceding Administrations. By the Act of March 2d, 1829. For extending the pier of Black Rock Harbor, at the outlet of Lake Erie, to a point opposite Bird's Island, . $30,000 VOL. II. 31 For removing obstructions at the entrance of the Harbor of $12,500 For the improvement of the navigation of the Genesee 10,000 For improving the navigation of Conneaut Creek, in the same, 75,000 By the Act of 23d April, 1830. For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron River, 1,880.36 For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of 5,563.18 For completing the improvements of Cleveland Harbor, 1,786.56 For removing sand-bar at or near the mouth of Black River, 8,559.77 For improving the navigation of Conneaut Creek, Ohio, . 6,135.65 1,342.75 15,488.00 3,198.00 For completing piers at Buffalo Harbor, New York, . 15,280.00 For improving the navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, . 50,000.00 By the Act of March 2d, 1831. For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron River, For removing sand-bar at or near the mouth of Black River, For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of 5,680.00 For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus Bay, For securing the works of Oswego Harbor, New York, by a stone pier head and mole, For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo Harbor, 12,900.00 |