hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications...
I recommend also, as a more effectual safeguard and encouragement to our growing manufactures, that the additional duties on imports which a...
I recommend a suitable provision for them.
It is possible that a perseverance of the enemy in their cruel policy may render a further expense for the like purpose inevitable.
The necessity imposed by the conduct of the enemy in relation to the savages of admitting their cooperation in some instances with our arms ...
The deplorable situation of the savages thrown by the same event on the mercy and humanity of the American commander at Detroit drew from th...
The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war is more and more de...
Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.
Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters are by like supplies accommodated and encouraged in their predatory and incursive...
To remedy as much as possible these evils, I recommend: That an effectual embargo on exports be immediately enacted.
It is found also that the practice of ransoming is a cover for collusive captures and a channel for intelligence advantageous to the enemy.
To these abuses it may be added that illegal importations are openly made with advantage to the violators of the law.
That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.
To shorten as much as possible the duration of the war it is indispensable that the enemy should feel all the pressure that can be given to ...
The cruelty of the enemy in enlisting the savages into a war with a nation desirous of mutual emulation in mitigating its calamities has not...
The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious calculations, has disap...
It was hoped that this necessary consequence of the step unadvisedly taken on the part of Great Britain would have led her Government to ref...
The progress of the expedition, as far as is yet known, corresponds with the martial zeal with which it was espoused.
