On the recordApril 18, 1808
Such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by the laws of the United States
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presidency.ucsb.eduThomas Jefferson: “Such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers…”
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Proclamation 15—Warning All Persons on Lake Champlain and Adjacent County to Cease Violence and Disperse
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