Special Message
02/17/1815
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His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enri...
The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war...
To these abuses it may be added that illegal importations are openly made with advantage to the violators of the law.
To remedy as much as possible these evils, I recommend: That an effectual embargo on exports be immediately enacted.