Special Message
12/08/1813
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The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war...
It is found also that the practice of ransoming is a cover for collusive captures and a channel for intelligence advanta...
The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteou...
The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious cal...