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WASHINGTON CITY,
December 8, 1801.
TIUS DAT, at twelve o'clock,
tbs sollowing MESSAGE was
'delivered to each Hcuje , by Mr.
J.ezvts, Secretary to the Presi
dent.
MESS A G E
Os the P res dent os the United
States, to both Plouses os Ccn
%rejs.
December 8, 1801.
Sir,
THE circumttances under
which we sind ourseives at this
place rendering inconvenient the
inode heretosore pra&ised, os
making by personal address the
sirst communications between
the Legislative and Executive
branches, I have adopted chit
by Mcslagc, as used on all sub
scquent occasions through the
settion. In doing this, I have
had principal regard to the con
venience os the legislature, to
the economy os their time, to
their relies srom the embarrass
ment os immediate answers, on
subje&s not yet sully besore
them, and to the benesits thence
xesulting to the public assairs.—
Trutting that a procedure,
sounded in these motives, will
meet their approbation, I beg
leave, through you sir, to com
municate the inclostd message
• O
with the documents accompany
ing it, to the honorable the
House os Representatives, and
pray you to accept, soryoursels
and them, the homage os my
high respesb and conlideration.
Th. JEFFERSON.
s She honorable the Speaker
os the Hcuje os Rcpre~
sentativq.
* llcw Citizens os the Senate , and
cs the Honse os Representalives,
IF is a circumilance os lin
tere gratisication to me, that on
Meeting the great council os the
nation, I am able to announce to
them on grounds os rcasonable
certainty, that the w ars and trou
bles, which have sor lb many
sears attsidled our sitter nations,
have at length come to an end ;
a nd that the communications os
peace and commerce arc once
rcorc opening among them. —
• we devoutly return thanks
to the benesicent Being who has
been pleased to breathe into
them the spiric os conciliation
and sorgiveness, we are bound
with peculiar gratitude, to be
thanksul to him that our own
peace has been preserred through
so perilous/ a season, and ourseives
Permitted quietly to cultivate
she earth, and to prastise and
Improve thosa arts .which tend
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to increase our comsorts. The i
alsurances indeed os sriendly dis- !
position received srom ail the '
powers with whom we have
principal relations, had inspired :
a considence that our peace with
them would not have been dis
turbed. But a cessation os tlie
irregularities which had asslicted
the commerce os neutial nations,
and os the irritations and injuries
produced by them, cannot but
add to this considence ; and
ttrengthens at the lame time the
hope that wrongs committed on
unossending sriends, under a
preslure os circumsiances, will
now be reviewed with candor,
and will be.consldered as sound
ing just claims os retribution sor
the pall, and new alsurance sor
the suture.
Among our Indian neighbours
also a spirit os peace and sriend
ship generally prevails; and I
am happy to insorm ) on, that
the continued essorts to intro
duce among them the imple
ments and the praslicc os hus
bandry, and os the houschcld
arts, have not been without suc
cel's. 1 hat they are become
more and more sensible os the
supericrity os this dependence
sor clothing and subsittence,
over the precarious resources os
hunting and sisliing. And al
ready we are able to announce
that, inttead os that conttant di
minution in numbers produced
by their wars and their wants,
seme os them begin to experience
an increase os population.
To this ttatc os general peace
With which we have been blett
ed, one only exception exitts.
Tripoli, the least considerable
os the Barbary Hates, had come
sorward with demands unsound
ed either in right or in compact,
and had permitted itseis to de
nounce war, on our sailure to
comply besore a given day. The
ttyle os the demand admitted
but one answer. 1 sent a sinal!
squadron os srigates into the
Mediterranean, with atturances
to that power os our smcere
desne to remain in peace; but
with orders to prote<sl our j
commerce against the threaten- I
cd attack. The measurc was
scasonable and salutary. Ihe
Bey had already declared war
in sorm. His cruisers were
out. Two had arrived a: Gi
braltar. Our commerce in the
Mediterranean was blockaded ;
and that os the Atlantic in pe
ril. The arrival os our squa
dron dispelled the danger. One
os the Tripolitan cruiieis hav
ing sallen in with and engaged
the small schooner Enterprize,
commanded by iieut. Sterret,
which had gone out a* a tender
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, to our larger vcsicls, was cap
| lured alter a heavy' (laughter os
' her men, without the loss cs a
Tingle me m our pait. The
bravery exhibited by our citizens
on that element will, I tiutt, be
a tertimony os die world, that it
is not a want os that virtue
which makes us seck their
peace ; but a conscientious de
uce to diredl the energies os our
nation to the multiplication os
the human race ; and not to its
destruclion. Unauthorized bv
the conttitutlon, without the
saruTion os congress, to go be
yond the line os desence, the
veslel being disablcd srom com
rniting surther hollilides, was li
berated with its crew; the legis
iaturc will doubi.lds consider
whether, by authorizing mea
sures os csence also, they will )
place our sorce on an equal 1
sooting with that os its adver
saries. I communicate* all ma
terial insormation on this sub- ,
jecl, and in the exercise os the 1
important slmslioh, consided :
by the constitution to the legis- ,
latine cxtTusivtJy, their judg
ment mav srom itseis on a know- '
ledge and consederation osevery
circumilance os weight.
I wish I could say that our
siruation with all the other Bar- |
bary Hates w'as entirely satissac- J
tcry. Discovermg that lome
delays had taken place in the
persormance os certain articles
stipulated by us, 1 thought it my
duty, by immediate mealures
sor i illillinu diem, to vindicate
to ourseives the right os consi
dering die esie6l os departure
srom ttipulation on their side.
From the papers which will be
laid besore you, you will be ena
bled rojudge whetherour treaties
are regarded by them as sixing
at all the measure os their de
mands, or as guarding againH
the exercise os sorcing our vel
sels within their power; 'and to
consider hov/ sar it will be Jase
and expedient to leave our as
sairs with them in their present
posture.
I lay besore you the resulc os
the census lately taken os our
inhabitants, to a consormity with
which we arc to reduce the en
suing rates os repsescntatioo and
taxation. You will perceive
that the increase os numbers,-
during the latt ten years, pro
ceeding in geometrical ratio,
prom lies a duplication in little
more* than twenty-two years.
We contemplate' this rapid
growth, and the prospectit holds
up to us, not with a view to the
injuries it may enable us to do to
others in seme luture day, but
to the settlement os the exten
sive country stlil remaining va- 1
cant within our limits, to tho
multiplication os men, suseep
dble os happiness, educated in
the love os order, habituated to
scls-government, and valuing
its bh slings above all price.
Other circumttances, com
bined with the increase os num
bers, have produced an aug
mentation os revenue arising
srom conJiimptipn, in a ratio sar
bey ond thatosjjopulation alone j
and though the changes in so
reign relations, now taking place
It) dr sirably soi the whole world,
may soi a lea lunette 61 this branch
os revenue, yeti weighing all
probabilities oscxpence, as well
as os income, there is reasomw
ble ground os considence, that
wc may now sasely dispensc with
all the internal taxes, comprc
hending exciscs, (lamps, auc
tions, licences, carriages, and
resined iugars; to which the
pottage on ncwspapers may be
added to sacilitate the progress
os insormation ; and that the
remaining sources os revenue
will be lossicicnt to provide sor
1 lie support os government
to pay the interdl os the public
debts, and- to diseharge the
principals in Ihorter periods than
the laws, or the general expec
tation had contemplated. War,
indeed, and untoward t. vents
may change this piospcdt ; os
tilings, and cajl sor expenccs
winch the imports could not
meet. But sound principles
will not juttisy our taxing the
induttry os our sellow-citizens
to accumulate treasurc sor wars
to haj pen we know not when,
and which might not, perhaps,
happen, but srom the tempta
tions ossered by that treasurc.
T hese views, however, os re
ducing our burthens, arc sormed
on the expectation, that a sen
sible, and at the same time, a
salutary reduction may take
place in our habitual expendi
tures. • For this purpose, thosc
os the civil government, the
army and navy, will need revis
at. When wc consider that
this governmentis charged with
the external and mutual relations
only os these Hates; that the
Hates thcmselvcs have principal
care os our persons, our proper
tv, and our reputation; contt;!-
tuting the great sield os human
concerns, we may well doubt
whether our organization is not*
too complicated, too expensivc ;
whether ossices and ossicers havo.
not been multiplied tnncccslarily
and sometimes injuriously to the
scrvice they were meant to pro
mote. I will causc to be la.cl
besore you an eiTay towards sc
statement, os thosc who, unde?
public employment os vario^#'