A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the other.
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should any of the warrants not appear for location on that day they may be located afterwards, according to their priority of presentation
I transmit the original of the convention between the United States and Great Britain, as signed by their respective plenipotentiaries, on the 3d day of July last.
The wisdom of the Legislature will decide on the course which, under these circumstances, is prescribed by a joint regard to the amicable relations between the two nations and to the just interests of the United States.
I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace with Great Britain, showing the conditions on which alone that Government is willing to put an end to the war.





