Special Message
02/04/1819
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If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
Any mode which the Senate may adopt will be satisfactory to me.
I transmit herewith to Congress copies of letters received at the Department of State from the minister of Great Britain...
Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the St...