The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.
The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fe...
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and fr...
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March ...
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce thems...
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secr...
According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all...
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...
On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, over...
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...
With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
