Special Message
12/08/1813
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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...
I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiat...
The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war...
if not counteracted, will have the effect of diminishing very materially the pressure of the war on the enemy, and encou...