I therefore now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it.
The consolidation of the Mississippi Territory and the establishment of a barrier of separation between the Indians and our Southern neighbo...
The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for ...
But progressive difficulties in our foreign relations have brought into view considerations other than those which then prevailed.
It is now, perhaps, as interesting to obtain footing for a strong settlement of militia along our southern frontier eastward of the Mississi...
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public offices during the pr...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
Should any want of power in the court to compel the rendering of testimony obstruct that full and impartial inquiry which alone can establis...
The result has been an acquisition of so much only of what would have been acceptable as extends from the neighborhood of Saguina Bay to the...
I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if their own convenienc...
I have thought it would be important to obtain from the Indians such a cession in the neighborhood of these posts as might maintain a militi...
I have thought it best where urged by no peculiar necessity to leave to themselves and to the pressure of their own convenience only to come...
I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate for their advice.
I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1807.
They contain information of the state of things in that quarter which will properly enter into their view in estimating the means to be prov...
I communicate to Congress the inclosed letters from Governor Hull, respecting the Indians in the vicinity of Detroit residing within our lin...
