I have by a proclamation bearing date this day directed commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act, to survey and limit a part of the territory of 10 miles square on both sides of the river Potomac.
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To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.
Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy.
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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