I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited to a convenient day in their next session, and removable in the meantime in the event of a cessation of the blockade of our ports.
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The occasion may be proper, also, for securing the use and accommodations of the Neapolitan ports, which may at any time be needed by the public ships of the United States
The late war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort to assert the rights and independence of the nation.
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I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law
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