Gentlemen of the Senate, I submit to your consideration the report of the Secretary of State.
I have to request your decision whether you will advise and consent to the extension of the powers of the commissioners as proposed.
Commercial arrangements, if acceptable in themselves, will not be the less so if coupled with those relating to navigation and boundary.
Knowing the friendly interest you take in whatever may promote the happiness and prosperity of the French nation.
I lay before you a copy of a return of the number of inhabitants in the district of South Carolina as made to me by the marshal thereof.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: I lay before you a copy of an exemplified copy of an act of the legislature of ...
That the sum to be paid annually by the United States to the Cherokee Nation of Indians in consideration of the relinquishment of lands shal...
Let us therefore cherish the spirit of peace and harmony, and encourage industry, economy, and sobriety.
Excepting as to the brave men who have fallen on the occasion, and who are a subject of public as well as private regret.
Although the national loss is considerable according to the scale of the event, yet it may be repaired without great difficulty.
It is with great concern that I communicate to you the information received from Major-General St. Clair of the misfortune which has befalle...
I received yesterday from the judge of the district of South Carolina a letter,...
The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little a...
Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus...
In vain may we expect peace with the Indians on our frontiers so long as a lawless set of unprincipled wretches can violate the rights of ho...
The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, which respect the subdivisions of the districts int...
Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the day of its admission,...
I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Government into motion in t...