Fifth Annual Message
12/06/1813
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I, James Madison. President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, exhorting all the good people thereof to unite their hearts...
Whereas advantage has been taken of the loss of a fort more immediately guarding the neighboring town of Alexandria to place the town within...
hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications...
I recommend also, as a more effectual safeguard and encouragement to our growing manufactures, that the additional duties on imports which a...