Special Message
03/09/1808
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Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exer...
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce thems...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.