Peace ought to be pursued with unremitted zeal before the last resource, which has so often been the scourge of nations, is contemplated.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, advices concerning t...
GO. WASHINGTON.
I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the te...
The condition of things in that quarter requires the serious and immediate consideration of Congress.
the strongest assurances have been given that his recall should be expedited without delay
his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved
An establishment of this nature, by securing a regular and punctual accountability for the issues of public supplies, would be a great guard...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Both justice and policy require that the source of that information should remain secret.
For the fulfillment of your anticipations of the future I can give no other assurance than that the motives which you approve shall continue...
I shall not affect to conceal the cordial satisfaction which I derive from the address of the House of Representatives.
It is truly gratifying to me to learn that the proclamation has been considered as a seasonable guard against the interruption of the public...
I think it my duty, therefore, to declare that I deem the nomination to have been null by the Constitution.
It has been agreed on the part of the United States that a treaty or conference shall be held at the ensuing season with the hostile Indians...
I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the year 1792 from the sum of $10,000.
May we always be led by justice and not by mere ambition.
