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.
The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war...
Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.
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 sufficie...
It is fortunate for the United States that they have it in their power to meet the enemy in this deplorable contest as i...
The cruelty of the enemy in enlisting the savages into a war with a nation desirous of mutual emulation in mitigating it...
The progress of the expedition, as far as is yet known, corresponds with the martial zeal with which it was espoused.
The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious cal...
It was hoped that this necessary consequence of the step unadvisedly taken on the part of Great Britain would have led h...
A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the othe...
The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.
The systematic perseverance of the enemy in courting the aid of the savages in all quarters had the natural effect of ki...
Upon these principles and with these views the good people of the United States are invited, in conformity with the reso...
I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited...
keeping in view also the insidious discrimination between the different ports of the United States;
There being sufficient ground to infer that it is the purpose of the enemy to combine with the blockade of our ports spe...
