And I do hereby further
require and command all officers having authority, civil or military,
and all other persons, civil or military, who shall be found within
the vicinage of such insurrections or combinations to be aiding
and assisting by all the means in their power, by force of arms or
otherwise, to quell and subdue such insurrections or combinations,
to seize upon all those therein concerned who shall not instantly and
without delay disperse and retire to their respective abodes, and to
deliver them over to the civil authority of the place, to be proceeded
against according to law.
[SEAL.]
In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Given at the city of Washington, the 19th day of April, 1808, and in
the year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States the
thirty-second.
TH. JEFFERSON.
By the President:
JAMES MADISON,
_Secretary of State_.
EIGHTH ANNUAL MESSAGE.
NOVEMBER 8, 1808.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
It would have been a source, fellow-citizens, of much gratification if
our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that
the belligerent nations, whose disregard of neutral rights has been so
destructive to our commerce, had become awakened to the duty and true
policy of revoking their unrighteous edicts.
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