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On the recordDecember 2, 1805
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations, of which the interests of our own country and the confidence reposed in us by others will admit a communication.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Fifth Annual Message

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