On these several treaties I have to request that the Senate will advise whether I shall ratify them or not.
I now lay before the Senate the several treaties and conventions following, which have been entered into on the part of the United States si...
She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish ports were included in ...
From that moment she seemed to change her conduct and dispositions toward us.
To them I communicate every fact material for their information and the documents necessary to enable them to judge for themselves.
These made it a duty to require from that Government indemnifications for our injured citizens.
The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing ourselves of it.
I have thought it my duty to await their authority for using force in any degree which could be avoided.
It was first manifested by her protest against the right of France to alienate Louisiana to us, which, however, was soon retracted and the r...
Then high offense was manifested at the act of Congress establishing a collection district on the Mobile, although by an authentic declarati...
Before this convention was returned to Spain with our ratification the transfer of Louisiana by France to the United States took place, an e...
To their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue, and will pursue with sincere zeal that which they shall approve.
We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.
Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another commu...
An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principa...
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.
Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before...
