With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that...
I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for publication, yet necessary...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fellow citizens in gen...
It is found that no steps have been taken for the purpose.
Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exercise the authority i...
The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instructions given to our m...
That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing a suspension, in wh...
The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred ...
I transmit to both Houses of Congress a letter from the envoy of His Britannic Majesty at this place to the Secretary of State on the subjec...
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shal...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals b...
hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and retire peaceably to thei...
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1807, never came to m...
I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writers, and dates of ti...
Believing that the confidence and union of our fellow-citizens at the present crisis will be still further confirmed by the publication of t...