Special Message
01/16/1806
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I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...