Special Message
01/05/1809
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Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and con...
Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced...
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, s...