Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, an...
The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instruc...
The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation.
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on the high seas, whatso...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until the dangers to which...
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.
This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
Until this question can be decided under legislative authority, measures have been taken according to law to prevent any change in the state...
It is understood to have been a shoal or elevation of the bottom of the river adjacent to the bank of the suburbs of St. Mary, produced by t...
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public fiduciaries and for...
The great volume of the documents and the time necessary for the investigation will explain to the Senate the causes of the delay which has ...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for the district of Detro...
Although nothing forbids the general matter of these letters from being spoken of without reserve, yet as the publication of papers of this ...
The dangers to our country arising from the contests of other nations and the urgency of making preparation for whatever events might affect...
If an increase of force be now approved, I submit to their consideration the outlines of a plan proposed in the inclosed letter from the Sec...
To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, seems to be expedient...
