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Excerpt from Message From the President of the United States, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Fifteenth Congress: November 17, 1818, Read, and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on the State of the Union In entering Florida to suppress this combination, no idea was entertained of hostility to Spain, and, how ever justifiable the com manding general was, in consequence (if the misconduct of the Spa nish emeers, entering St. Marks and Pensacola, to te1minate it, by proving to the savages and their associates, that they should not be protected, even there; yet the amicable relations, existing be. Tween the United States and Spain, could not be altered by that act alone.) By ordering the restitution of the posts, those relations were preserved. To a change of them, the power of the executive is deemed incompetent. It 18 vested in Congress only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.