These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principal.

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

Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever awake to them.

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

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.

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

A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to…

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

On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I embrace the opportunity to give this public assurance that I will exert my best endeavors to…

I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.