I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.
In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever whi...
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information ne...
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I ...
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be e...
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be...
The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.
I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found ...
My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of eve...
What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?
But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?
I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which ...
In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.
War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.
I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would...
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be ...
