In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations, of which the interests of our own country and the confidence…

In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever which in latter times has occasionally visited our shores.

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another communication.

Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it.

I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.

Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.

We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.

What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?

I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the…

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved.

War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.

I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union.

In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.