I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writers, and dates of time, and place, and this has been done with such exactness that I do not recollect ever to have…

Believing that the confidence and union of our fellow-citizens at the present crisis will be still further confirmed by the publication of the letter of Mr. Champagny to General Armstrong and that of Mr. Erskine to the Secretary of State…

every new information confirms the prudence of guarding against these designs

Lieutenant Pike on his part made presents to the Indians to some amount.

Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced a ready consent to the proposition.

The Cherokees readily consented, for a moderate compensation, that the line should be so run as to include all the waters of that river.

I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances have been previously obtained, exclusive legislation can not be exercised therein by Congress until that consent is given.

From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various parts be defeated unless a remedy can be applied.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

From the State of Delaware alone no return has been made.

With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the powers vested in them by the Constitution, combined with the amendment providing that private property shall not be…

These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.

I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary and confidential papers herewith inclosed, with such references as that they may be read in their…

Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and conferences respecting it matters will occur which interest sometimes and sometimes respect or other proper motives forbid…

I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.

Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, and will furnish opportunities of selecting on better information the characters most qualified to…

The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.

The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation.