I recommend a suitable provision for them.

It is possible that a perseverance of the enemy in their cruel policy may render a further expense for the like purpose inevitable.

Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.

The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war is more and more developed by experience.

To shorten as much as possible the duration of the war it is indispensable that the enemy should feel all the pressure that can be given to it.

Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters are by like supplies accommodated and encouraged in their predatory and incursive warfare.

To remedy as much as possible these evils, I recommend: That an effectual embargo on exports be immediately enacted.

To these abuses it may be added that illegal importations are openly made with advantage to the violators of the law.

It is found also that the practice of ransoming is a cover for collusive captures and a channel for intelligence advantageous to the enemy.

That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.

With all good citizens the justice and necessity of resisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be borne will sufficiently outweigh the privations and sacrifices inseparable from a state of war.

The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious calculations, has disappointed this reasonable anticipation.

The cruelty of the enemy in enlisting the savages into a war with a nation desirous of mutual emulation in mitigating its calamities has not been confined to any one quarter.

It is fortunate for the United States that they have it in their power to meet the enemy in this deplorable contest as it is honorable to them that they do not join in it but under the most imperious obligations.

The systematic perseverance of the enemy in courting the aid of the savages in all quarters had the natural effect of kindling their ordinary propensity to war into a passion.

The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.

A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the other.

It was hoped that this necessary consequence of the step unadvisedly taken on the part of Great Britain would have led her Government to reflect on the inconsistencies of its conduct.