If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure u...
Conformably to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of January last, I transmit \rolls of the pers...
The better to guard, nevertheless, against the effect of individual cupidity and treachery and to turn the corrupt proje...
The general tendency of these demoralizing and disorganizing contrivances will be reprobated by the civilized and Christ...
The insulting attempt on the virtue, the honor, the patriotism, and the fidelity of our brethren of the Eastern States w...
The policy now proclaimed to the world introduces into her modes of warfare a system equally distinguished by the deform...
I recommend to the consideration of Congress the equity and propriety of a general provision allowing in such cases, bot...
The signal display of both by Captain Bainbridge, his officers and crew, commands the highest praise.
The circumstances and the issue of this combat afford another example of the professional skill and heroic spirit which ...
I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a correspondence between John Mitchell, agent for American prison...
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 cla...
examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility a...
Too much praise can not be bestowed on that officer and his companions on board for the consummate skill and conspicuous...
Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and prospects, that a general embargo be laid on all vessels n...
It will not fail to render more dear to the hearts of all good citizens that happy union of these States which, under Di...
They prove that at a recent period, whilst the United States, notwithstanding the wrongs sustained by them, ceased not t...
In addition to the effect which the discovery of such a procedure ought to have on the public councils, it will not fail...
