I recommend to the consideration of Congress the equity and propriety of a general provision allowing in such cases, both past and future, a...
I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a correspondence between John Mitchell, agent for American prisoners of war at Halifa...
I transmit, for the like purpose, copies of a letter from Commodore Rodgers to the Secretary of the Navy
A nation feeling what it owes to itself and to its citizens could never abandon to arbitrary violence on the ocean a class of them which giv...
Too much praise can not be bestowed on that officer and his companions on board for the consummate skill and conspicuous valor by which this...
examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility against a country who...
Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and prospects, that a general embargo be laid on all vessels now in port, or herea...
In addition to the effect which the discovery of such a procedure ought to have on the public councils, it will not fail to render more dear...
It will not fail to render more dear to the hearts of all good citizens that happy union of these States which, under Divine Providence, is ...
They prove that at a recent period, whilst the United States, notwithstanding the wrongs sustained by them, ceased not to observe the laws o...
At the request of the convention assembled in the Territory of Orleans on the 22d day of November last, I transmit to Congress the proceedin...
a full pardon is hereby granted and proclaimed
The continued evidence afforded in this correspondence of the hostile policy of the British Government against our national rights strengthe...
I transmit to Congress an account of the contingent expenses of the Government for the year 1811, incurred on the occasion of taking possess...
I lay before Congress copies of resolutions entered into by the legislature of Pennsylvania, which have been transmitted to me with that vie...
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I lay before Congress copies of resolutions entered into by the legislature ...
It is no less certain that scarcely any country offers more extensive opportunities for that branch of improvements than the United States, ...
The utility of canal navigation is universally admitted.