Special Message
12/05/1816
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With all good citizens the justice and necessity of resisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be borne will sufficie...
The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.
I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law
To shorten as much as possible the duration of the war it is indispensable that the enemy should feel all the pressure t...