Although the national loss is considerable according to the scale of the event, yet it may be repaired without great dif...
It is with great concern that I communicate to you the information received from Major-General St. Clair of the misfortu...
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,...
Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the...
In vain may we expect peace with the Indians on our frontiers so long as a lawless set of unprincipled wretches can viol...
The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, which respect the subdivisions ...
Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the d...
I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Governm...
For this purpose I nominate Nathaniel Chipman to be judge of the district of Vermont; Stephen Jacobs to be attorney for ...
I have therefore thought it expedient to nominate Thomas Auldjo to be vice-consul for the United States at the port of P...
I also nominate James Yard, of Pennsylvania, to be consul for the United States in the island of Santa Cruz.
The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention...
I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers.
I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Que...
I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.
I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informall...
I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.
