Thomas Jefferson actually said...

From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various parts be defeated unles...

With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the powers vested in th...

These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States ac...