We therefore do enact, and be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Virginia, that all citizens of this Commonwealth, and persons and
authorities within the same, shall pay full obedience at all times to
the acts which may be passed by the Congress of the United States, the
object of which shall be the construction of post-roads, making canals
of navigation, and maintaining the same, in any part of the United
States, in like manner as if the said acts were, _totidem verbis_,
passed by the legislature of this Commonwealth.
LETTER CLXXXVII.--TO WILLIAM B. GILES, December 25, 1825
TO WILLIAM B. GILES.
Monticello, December 25, 1825.
Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 15th was received four days ago. It found me engaged
in what I could not lay aside till this day.
Far advanced in my eighty-third year, worn down with infirmities which
have confined me almost entirely to the house for seven or eight
months past, it afflicts me much to receive appeals to my memory for
transactions so far back as that which is the subject of your letter.
My memory is indeed become almost a blank, of which no better proof can
probably be given you than by my solemn protestation, that I have not
the least recollection of your intervention between Mr. John Q. Adams
and myself, in what passed on the subject of the embargo. Not the
slightest trace of it remains in my mind. Yet I have no doubt of the
exactitude of the statement in your letter.
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