The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.
The systematic perseverance of the enemy in courting the aid of the savages in all quarters had the natural effect of kindling their ordinar...
With all good citizens the justice and necessity of resisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be borne will sufficiently outweigh the pr...
It is fortunate for the United States that they have it in their power to meet the enemy in this deplorable contest as it is honorable to th...
A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the other.
Upon these principles and with these views the good people of the United States are invited, in conformity with the resolution aforesaid, to...
I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited to a convenient day...
keeping in view also the insidious discrimination between the different ports of the United States;
if not counteracted, will have the effect of diminishing very materially the pressure of the war on the enemy, and encouraging a perseveranc...
There being sufficient ground to infer that it is the purpose of the enemy to combine with the blockade of our ports special licenses to neu...
If they agree, the appointments or treaties are made; if the Senate disagree, they fail.
Conceiving it to be my duty to decline the proposed conference with the committee.
The relation between the Senate and House of Representatives, in whom legislative power is concurrently vested, is sufficiently analogous to...
other considerations concurring to render it advisable at this period to make a correspondent appointment.
The Swedish Government having repeatedly manifested a desire to interchange a public minister with the United States.
As an encouragement to persevering and invigorated exertions to bring the contest to a happy result, I have the satisfaction of being able t...
If the reasonableness of expectations drawn from these considerations could guarantee their fulfillment a just peace would not be distant.
In recommending to the National Legislature this resort to additional taxes I feel great satisfaction in the assurance that our constituents...
