The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.