Special Message
01/18/1803
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It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exer...
every new information confirms the prudence of guarding against these designs
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.