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Nov 7, 1808

It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that the belligerent nations, whose disregard of neutral rights has been so destructive to our…

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Dec 29, 1808

I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habitations whenever they are so disposed.

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Jan 5, 1809

The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.

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Nov 7, 1808

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.

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