I Cannot Find Any Authority

I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Public Charity.

But Let Not The Foundation Of Our Hope Rest Upon Man's Wisdom. It Will Not Be Sufficient That Sectional Prejudices Find No Place In The Public Deliberations. It Will Not Be Sufficient That The Rash Counsels Of Human Passion Are Rejected. It Must Be Felt That There Is No National Security But In The Nation's Humble, Acknowledged Dependence Upon God And His Overruling Providence.

The Revenue Of The Country, Levied Almost Insensibly To The Taxpayer, Goes On From Year To Year, Increasing Beyond Either The Interests Or The Prospective Wants Of The Government.

Of All Knaves The Religious Knave Is The Worst.

Readily And, I Trust, Feelingly Acknowledge The Duty Incumbent On Us All . . . To Provide For Those Who, In The Mysterious Order Of Providence, Are Subject To Want And To Disease Of Body Or Mind; But I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Making The Federal Government The Great Almoner Of Public Charity Throughout The United States . . . .