It is possible that a perseverance of the enemy in their cruel policy may render a further expense for the like purpose inevitable.

The necessity imposed by the conduct of the enemy in relation to the savages of admitting their cooperation in some instances with our arms has also involved occasional expense in supplying their wants.

The deplorable situation of the savages thrown by the same event on the mercy and humanity of the American commander at Detroit drew from the same source the means of saving them from perishing by famine.

I recommend a suitable provision for them.

It is found also that the practice of ransoming is a cover for collusive captures and a channel for intelligence advantageous to the enemy.

Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.

The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war is more and more developed by experience.

To remedy as much as possible these evils, I recommend: That an effectual embargo on exports be immediately enacted.

To these abuses it may be added that illegal importations are openly made with advantage to the violators of the law.

That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.

To shorten as much as possible the duration of the war it is indispensable that the enemy should feel all the pressure that can be given to it.

Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters are by like supplies accommodated and encouraged in their predatory and incursive warfare.

The systematic perseverance of the enemy in courting the aid of the savages in all quarters had the natural effect of kindling their ordinary propensity to war into a passion.

The cruelty of the enemy in enlisting the savages into a war with a nation desirous of mutual emulation in mitigating its calamities has not been confined to any one quarter.

The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.

A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the other.

It was hoped that this necessary consequence of the step unadvisedly taken on the part of Great Britain would have led her Government to reflect on the inconsistencies of its conduct.

The progress of the expedition, as far as is yet known, corresponds with the martial zeal with which it was espoused.