Special Message
03/28/1796
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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.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
It is with peculiar satisfaction I can say, that prompted by a high sense of duty in my attendance on public worship, I ...