09/18/1796
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"We may meet, under every assurance of success, our enemies from within and from without."
"I derive much happiness from being confirmed by your judgment in the necessity of decisive measures."
"I lay before Congress copies of a letter from the governor of the State of New York and of the exemplification of an act of the legislature thereof ratifying the amendment of the Constitution of the U..."
"I retain full confidence in our minister resident at Madrid."