First Annual Address
12/31/1795
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I nominate Thomas Pinckney to be envoy extraordinary of the United States to His Catholic Majesty.
I retain full confidence in our minister resident at Madrid.
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 ...
Let us unite, therefore, in imploring the Supreme Ruler of Nations to spread his holy protection over these United States.