Special Message
12/12/1804
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The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will p...