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On the recordApril 18, 1808
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shall be found within the vicinage of such insurrections or combinations to be aiding and assisting by all the means in their power, by force of arms or otherwise, to quell and subdue such insurrections or combinations
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Proclamation 15—Warning All Persons on Lake Champlain and Adjacent County to Cease Violence and Disperse

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