Second Annual Message
11/15/1818
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As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of the Army, it is not p...
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in serv...
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitled 'An act to reduce ...