Second Annual Message
11/15/1818
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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 ac...
For the last three years the Government of Spain has not sent a single corps of troops to any part of that country, nor ...
It is to mitigate these evils in future wars, and even for the higher purpose of preventing war itself, that the decisio...