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Excerpt from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. 2: Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United StatesI now lay before Congress a statement of the works of defense which it has been thought necessary to provide in the first instance for