Special Message
02/04/1819
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To discriminate between men of acknowledged merit, especially in a way to affect so sensibly and materially their feelin...
To motives of interest this Government has invariably disclaimed all pretension, being resolved to take no part in the c...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...
Should another war occur before it is completed, the experience of the last marks in characters too strong to be mistake...