Special Message
12/22/1811
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We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity.
In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld.
His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but in the disaster and...
The destruction of the Capitol by the enemy having made it necessary that other accommodations should be provided for the meeting of Congres...