Special Message
03/28/1808
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Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exercise the authority i...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fellow citizens in gen...
That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing a suspension, in wh...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.