Special Message
03/09/1808
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every new information confirms the prudence of guarding against these designs
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, over...
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...
hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and reti...