In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter, I lay before you the intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject of the 24th instant.
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It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
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