I requested the different Departments to prepare reports on the whole subject so far as connected with the business with each.
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I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th March last, a report from the Secretary of War
I transmit herewith a report and accompanying documents from the Secretary of War, which furnish the information in relation to that portion of the defenses* of the country intrusted to the charge and direction of the Department of War, called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 2d of March, 1839.
Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the Constitution to establish...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.





