Special Message
11/10/1808
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Believing that the confidence and union of our fellow-citizens at the present crisis will be still further confirmed by ...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various par...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...