The practice of smuggling, which is odious everywhere, and particularly criminal in free governments.
Our other foreign relations remain without unfavorable changes.
I can not close this communication without expressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are assembled.
A prohibition is equally called for against the acceptance by our citizens of special licenses to be used in a trade with the United States.
The unfriendly spirit of those disclosures indemnity and redress for other wrongs have continued to be withheld.
An enlarged philanthropy and an enlightened forecast concur in imposing on the national councils an obligation to take a deep interest in th...
We should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies.
To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag.
It was hoped that the successive confirmations of the extinction of the French decrees would have induced the Government of Great Britain to...
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.
His high station and the relations of Russia to the predominant powers of Europe must give him weight with them according to the vicissitude...
I have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willi...
His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated ...
I transmit to Congress a letter recently received from our minister at the Court of St. James, covering one to him from the British secretar...
According to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, I now transmit them the information therein requested, respecting the executi...
When the documents concerning the relations between the United States and Great Britain were laid before Congress at the commencement of the...
The letter of Mr. Canning, however, having lately appeared in print, unaccompanied by that of Mr. Pinkney in reply, and having a tendency to...
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.
