Special Message
12/17/1807
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It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...
With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...