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In a message to Congress on December 5, 1815, President James Madison recommended that that body provide “a liberal provision for the immediate extension and gradual completion of the...
The fall of Savannah resulted in the adoption of the plan which Sherman had contemplated. In a letter dated December 24th Sherman says: "Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why I...
The tariff bill of 1816 was a sort of compromise between the conflicting interests. A high duty was advocated on all goods which could unquestionably be produced in sufficient quantity...