Special Message
01/29/1808
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Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
It is found that no steps have been taken for the purpose.
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fe...
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, over...