Special Message
01/05/1809
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Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...