01/21/1807
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"On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted."
"He has therefore been instructed to urge this subject anew, to bring it more fully to the bar of reason, and to insist on rights too evident and too important to be surrendered."
"Of that sum $1,987.50 have been necessarily applied to the support of the Territorial governments of Michigan and Louisiana until an opportunity could occur of making a specific appropriation for that..."
"I now render to Congress an account of the grant of $20,000 for the contingent charges of Government."