I recommend also to the attention of Congress the term at which the act of April 18, 1806, concerning the militia, will expire, and the effe...
The precise extent of that augmentation can not as yet be satisfactorily suggested, but that no time may be lost, and especially at a season...
I have thought it advisable also to secure from obliteration the trace of the road so far as it has been approved, which has been executed a...
In forming this decision I shall pay material regard to the interests and wishes of the populous parts of the State of Ohio and to a future ...
I communicate for the information of Congress a letter from the consul of the United States at Malaga to the Secretary of State, covering on...
For this no just cause has been given on our part within my knowledge.
We may daily expect more authentic and particular information on the subject from Mr. Lear, who was residing as our consul at Algiers.
They probably believed it best to let pass into oblivion transactions which, however culpable, had commenced before this Government existed,...
In no part of the papers communicated by Mr. Clark, which are voluminous and in different languages, nor in his letters, have we found any i...
By indications received from him they are now found.
I transmit them to Congress, as a further proof of the increasing dangers to our navigation and commerce.
The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of this treaty, I now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of ...
I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on.
By a treaty signed at Pooshapuckanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from t...
Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which sh...
The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely take care of the pos...
I have particularly contemplated, with this view, the acquisition of the eastern moiety of the peninsula between the lakes Michigan, Huron, ...
These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.
