Special Message
12/04/1803
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With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various par...
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil o...
Believing that the confidence and union of our fellow-citizens at the present crisis will be still further confirmed by ...