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To be raised from the foundation, for half the population now on the land; and our hundred millions of men now on their way hither. Under these circumstances Internal Improvements on the [ ] seale should be the first wish of the people, the first ease of government, the first [ ] of each [ ]. Internal improvement is the very [ ] which [earned?] be dispensed with, because I is one of the four corner stones of [ ] wealth, union and safety. It earned rest upon the individuals of the nation. I ought not to be confided to [ ] - it [ ] devolves of right therefore when the common head, the common purse. Internal improvement is the very [ ] which would distinguish the legislation of an anglo-american Freeman from the legislation of a [ ]! One would make the desert an Eden- the other would transform Eden itself into a desert. But internal improvement, the thing that strikes every [ ] cord of the heart, we are told, is not a constitutional duty of the general government. A war waged for no earthy purpose [renewable?] by the [ ], which would not shame humanily, may [ ] its hundred millions of money. To say [ ] of men,- and we must [ ] in this