Documents and Proof of the Climate and Soil of Florida
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Excerpt from Documents and Proof of the Climate and Soil of Florida: Particularly East Florida Fellow Citizens: If I had not in accordance with the views I entertain of the duty of a representative to his constituents, prescribed to myself a rule, from which I am unwilling to deviate, at the end of each successive session of Congress to give you a brief history of what was proposed to be done for your benefit, I should, on the present occasion, have remained silent. There has been, in the six months of the session, not yet terminated, so little of interest, or of congratulation, that I might, with great propriety, have spared you the trouble of the recital of the causes which have prevented the consideration of any other topics, but those general ones of the deep and pervading interest which have agitated the whole country, from the meeting of Congress, to the present time. As, however, you had a right to expect that some subjects of importance to you should be acted upon, it is incumbent upon me to show that the failure to despatch them did not arise from any want of attention or negligence on my part. When I arrived here, after a voyage to Europe, rendered indispensable by causes with which you are familiar, I found the whole country in the deepest state of distress and excitement, resulting from a contest between the Executive and the Bank of the United States. It is not my province to go into the merits of this controversy. The combatants of the respective parties, impute, as usual all their blame to their adversaries. At the end of the preceding session of Congress, the country was in a state of the most unexampled prosperity. Commerce, agriculture, and manufactures were all flourishing. We had a sound currency, well regulated and safe exchanges, a correct standard of value, and fixed prices of property. Now, the whole Union bears the appearance of the vegetable kingdom after a black frost. Commerce and manufactures are languishing, banks breaking, exchanges disordered and fluctuating, and the currency deranged. Importations have been so far checked that a great deficiency in the revenue is anticipated; the land sales will be diminished, and a corresponding reduction may be expected in all the appropriations for maritime defence, and the improvement of the Territory. In this state of things, it would be as unreasonable as preposterous to expect that the attention of Congress could be directed to, or their deliberations interrupted by, any other objects than those of such a paramount and absorbing nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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