A history of the American nation . tes, it is almost flattery to speak of commonwealths had already been founded beyond themountains but they were still separated from the eastern sea-board by long dreary stretches of forest, threaded here and thereby rough wagon roads, or by an occasional bridle rapid peopling of the West, which was one of the mostmarked facts of the day, now made an imperative demand forrespectable highways; no nation could be great and strongwithout means of communication. In Jeffersons time something had been done; as early as 1806 money had been app
A history of the American nation . tes, it is almost flattery to speak of commonwealths had already been founded beyond themountains but they were still separated from the eastern sea-board by long dreary stretches of forest, threaded here and thereby rough wagon roads, or by an occasional bridle rapid peopling of the West, which was one of the mostmarked facts of the day, now made an imperative demand forrespectable highways; no nation could be great and strongwithout means of communication. In Jeffersons time something had been done; as early as 1806 money had been appropriated for what was known as the Cumberland Road. This was to run from the Constitutional Potomac ovcr the mountains and into the West. questions. Something over a hundred miles of road had beenbuilt by 1816, when Calhoun introduced a bill to use the pro-ceeds which the Government received from the bank for internal - by the \ - /- , ^^ -- J *•* *\ C>^ ]•**! -( IfN D 1 A N A iry \ Awe <;t , /A ^N D 1 A N A ^ ) , ?;y(^ w E sS ; fj< V I R SJ hf I,A /.y The Cumberland Road improvements. This bill was vetoed by Madison on the groundof unconstitutionality. Some years later Monroe vetoed theso-called Cumberland Road bill for the same reason. Thislooked as if a policy of strict construction was to be again takenup. But this was almost the only sign of a wish to return tothe narrow policy the Republicans had favored twenty yearsbefore. Experience and the war had done much to crush out atimorous dread of governmental power. It is interesting to on salt and the necessaries of life? Upon poor men and slave Southerners as a rule seemed to believe in 1816 that factories wouldspring up at the South, under the encouragement of the 262 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION notice that Calhoun and some other southern men were thenstrong advocates of such internal improvements and of a broadnational policy. Let it n
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