The Ottawa free trader., 1854-05-13
VETO OF THE INSANE LAND
BILL.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The President after stating that the per
Torrance o: his duty, prescribed by the con-
stitution, has compelled hlm to resist his
own sympathies in favor Of so humane an
object, and overcome the reluctance with
which he disscnts from the conclusions Of
the two HOUSES Of Congress, says.
This Bill, therefore, proposes that the f3.
sral govei nmeut shall make provisions ~
the amount of the value Of ten millions &C
acres Of land, for an C!,mosyuary object
within the several states to hc administered
BY the political authority OF the .amc; aud
it presents, at the threshold, the question,
whether any such act, on the part II ihe
federal government, is warranted and Sane.
toned by the constitution, the provision,
and principles Of which are TO hr protected
and sustained Us i first ant paramount du-
y.
It cannot be questioned, that if CJncr,s-
have the power to make provision for the
INDECENT insane without the limits Of this
district, it las the same power to provide
for the indigcnt who arc not insane; and
thus to transfer to the federal government
the charge ofal the poor in al the states
It has the some power TO provide hospitals
and other local establishments for the carc
and cure ofcyory species Of human uiiunIty
and thus to assume all that duty Of either
public philanthropy, or public necessity 70
the dependent, the orphan, the sick, or the
needy, which is now discharged by the states
themselves, or by corporal, institutions, Or
private endowments existing under the leg.
islation Of the states
Tbe whole field Of rubIjc bcncGrcurc Is
thrown omen TO the care and culture Of the
federal p6gcrnment. Generous impulscs no
longer encounter the limitations and control
of our imperious Fundamental law For
however worthy NAV be the present object
in itself it il unly one Of a class. II i. mot
exclusively worthy Of benevolent regard
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