Special Message
01/12/1809
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To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...