Special Message
01/12/1809
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Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced...
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1...
This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...