Special Message
02/17/1815
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I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law
It is found also that the practice of ransoming is a cover for collusive captures and a channel for intelligence advanta...
In discharging this painful duty of stating objections to a measure which has undergone the deliberations and received t...
I congratulate you and our constituents upon an event which is highly honorable to the nation.