Excerpt from Mr. Webster's Address at Andover, November 9, 1843
The general government, all agree, is vested with certain powers, and held to certain duties. It is its duty to defend the country from foreign invasion; to provide armies and equip navies; the treaty - making power is confided to it; the super intendence Of the foreign relations, and the maintenance of the country's honor in foreign states, belong to it. This all ao knowledge. But upon its domestic duties, there has grown up a difference of opinion of great breadth, leading to divers con elusions, on the one side and the other.
Upon these duties it is my intention shortly to say something, and it is my wish that all remarks made upon the subject may be taken in that Spirit of conciliation and candor, from which they proceed. I wish to persuade others of their correctness. I know we have a common destiny; that the good of the whole country, embraces the good of all its parts; and I desire that at all times, by free and candid discussion, and consideration, the differences of Opinion which men entertain on these topics, may be reconciled, and that all may approach, and finally stand Upon, the same ground.
A contest has agitated the country for years, upon the true extent of the powers of Congress, in two particulars.
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