One man is offended
because a road passes over his land, and another is offended because it
does not pass over his; one is dissatisfied because the bridge for which
he is taxed crosses the river on a different road from that which leads
from his house to town; another cannot bear that the county should be got
in debt for these same roads and bridges; while not a few struggle hard
to have roads located over their lands, and then stoutly refuse to let
them be opened until they are first paid the damages. Even between the
different wards and streets of towns and cities we find this same
wrangling and difficulty. Now these are no other than the very
difficulties against which, and out of which, the President constructs
his objections of "inequality," "speculation," and "crushing the
treasury." There is but a single alternative about them: they are
sufficient, or they are not. If sufficient, they are sufficient out of
Congress as well as in it, and there is the end. We must reject them as
insufficient, or lie down and do nothing by any authority. Then,
difficulty though there be, let us meet and encounter it. "Attempt the
end, and never stand to doubt; nothing so hard, but search will find it
out.
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