Special Message
01/17/1803
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It is sent separately and confidentially because its publication may discourage frank communications between our ministers generally and the...
He has therefore been instructed to urge this subject anew, to bring it more fully to the bar of reason, and to insist on rights too evident...
On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.
The rights of a neutral to carry on commercial intercourse with every part of the dominions of a belligerent permitted by the laws of the co...