The American's Own Book

The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

Jefferson's First Annual Message, December 8, 1801

4 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

Jefferson's First Annual Message, December 8, 1801

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives: IT is a circumstance of sincere gratification to me that, on meeting the great…

Jefferson's First Annual Message, December 8, 1801: Barbary

To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary…

Jefferson's First Annual Message, December 8, 1801: Secretary

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, as prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury, will, as usual, be laid before…

Jefferson's First Annual Message, December 8, 1801: Congress

The judiciary system of the United States, and especially that portion of it recently erected, will of course present itself to the…

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