Special Message
01/05/1809
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The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.
These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.
Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and con...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various par...