12/08/1813
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"To render the war short and its success sure, animated and systematic exertions alone are necessary."
"The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated."
"If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure us that nothing is wanting to correspondent triumphs there also but the disciplin..."
"Conformably to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of January last, I transmit \rolls of the persons having office or employment of a public nature under the United States.\"