They probably believed it best to let pass into oblivion transactions which, however culpable, had commenced before this...
In no part of the papers communicated by Mr. Clark, which are voluminous and in different languages, nor in his letters,...
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 ...
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 l...
Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to mak...
The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely ...
I have particularly contemplated, with this view, the acquisition of the eastern moiety of the peninsula between the lak...
These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.
I therefore now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of...
The consolidation of the Mississippi Territory and the establishment of a barrier of separation between the Indians and ...
The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntin...
But progressive difficulties in our foreign relations have brought into view considerations other than those which then ...
It is now, perhaps, as interesting to obtain footing for a strong settlement of militia along our southern frontier east...
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public o...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
