I recommend the same to your consideration, that I may be enabled to give to it such answer as may best comport with the justice and the int...
I lay before you a representation of the charge' d'affaires of France.
GO. WASHINGTON.
the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands
the United States formed a treaty with the Cherokees in November, 1785
the treaty with the Creeks may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the Southwestern frontier of the Uni...
I shall conceive myself bound to exert the powers intrusted to me by the Constitution in order to carry into faithful execution the treaty o...
I have directed the commissioner to whom the charge of adjusting this treaty has been committed to lay before you such papers and documents....
It contains a regular, full, and definitive relinquishment on the part of the Creek Nation of the Oconee land.
But although the most valuable of the disputed land is included, yet there is a certain claim of Georgia...
It is to be expected that it will also in its consequences be the means of firmly attaching the Creeks and the neighboring tribes to the int...
The trade of the Indians is a main mean of their political management.
Will such an article be proper?
It therefore appears to be important to form a secret article of a treaty similar to the one which accompanies this message.
It is therefore agreed between the said parties that in the event of any such obstructions happening it shall be lawful for such persons as-...
The ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was received by...
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
I therefore nominate M, de Poiery to be a captain by brevet.
