The Cherokees readily consented, for a moderate compensation, that the line should be so run as to include all the water...
These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...
With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the...
I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances hav...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various par...
From the State of Delaware alone no return has been made.
I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them ...
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and con...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.
Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the ...
The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the nu...
The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of militar...
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on t...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...
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.