US Presidency
1859

It would be a strange anomaly, indeed, to have created two funds the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and domestic, which Congress might designate; that this fund should be disposed of, not to pay the debts of the United States, nor to raise and support armies, nor to provide and maintain a navy, nor to accomplish any one of the other great objects enumerated in the Constitution, but be diverted from them to pay the debts of the States, to educate their people, and to carry into effect any other measure of their domestic policy. This would be to confer upon Congress a vast and irresponsible authority, utterly at war with the well known jealousy of Federal power which prevailed at the formation of the Constitution.