Special Message
01/18/1803
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To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, s...
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for t...
I recommend also to the attention of Congress the term at which the act of April 18, 1806, concerning the militia, will ...