He recommended the opening of national roads and canals--the improvement of the navigation of rivers, and the safety of harbors--the survey of our coasts, the erection of light houses, piers, and breakwaters.

Whatever tended to facilitate communication and transportation between extreme portions of the Union--to bring the people of distant sections into a more direct intercourse with each other, and bind them together by ties of a business, social and friendly nature--to promote enterprize, industry, and enlarged views of national and individual prosperity--obtained his earnest sanction and recommendation.
To encourage home labor--to protect our infant manufactories from a fatal competition with foreign pauper wages--to foster and build up in the bosom of the country a system of domestic production, which should not only supply home consumption, and afford a home market for raw materials and provisions, the produce of our own soil, but enable us in due time to compete with other nations in sending our manufactures to foreign markets--he yielded all his influence to the levying of protective duties on foreign articles, especially such as could be produced in our own country.

The wisdom of this policy, its direct tendency to promote national wealth and strength, and to render the Union truly independent of the fluctuations and vicissitudes of foreign countries, cannot be doubted, it would seem, by those possessing clear minds and sound judgment, of all parties.
Under the faithful supervision of one so vigilant as Mr.Adams, the foreign relations of the Government could not have been neglected.

The intimate knowledge of the condition of foreign nations, their resources and their wants, which was possessed by himself and by Mr.Clay, the Secretary of State, afforded facilities in this department, from which the country reaped the richest benefit.

During the four years of his administration, more treaties were negotiated at Washington than during the entire thirty-six years through which the preceding administrations had extended.