I have therefore thought fit to issue this my proclamation, hereby exhorting all the citizens of the United States and requiring all the officers thereof, according to their respective stations, to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend and bring those offenders to justice.

I have received authentic information that certain lawless and wicked persons of the western frontier in the State of Georgia did lately invade, burn, and destroy a town belonging to the Cherokee Nation.

I do moreover offer a reward of $500 for each and every of the above-named persons who shall be so apprehended and brought to justice.

upon the result of your deliberations the future conduct of the Executive will on this occasion materially depend.

The several measures which have been pursued to induce the hostile Indian tribes north of the Ohio to enter into a conference or treaty with the United States at which all causes of difference might be fully understood and justly and amicably arranged have already been submitted to both Houses of Congress.

It will remain with the Legislature to take such measures as it shall think best for settling the said boundary with that State.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In pursuance of the law, I now lay before you a statement of the administration of the funds appropriated to certain foreign purposes.

The prosperous state of our revenue has been intimated.

It would be wise, however, by timely provisions to guard against those acts of our own citizens which might tend to disturb [peace]...

I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier.

No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance or to the general sentiment and wish of the nation.

I do by these presents most earnestly admonish and exhort all persons whom it may concern to refrain and desist from all unlawful combinations and proceedings.

All lawful ways and means will be strictly put in execution for bringing to justice the infractors thereof and securing obedience thereto.

Every citizen owes to his country and to the laws.

The people are the source of all power, and their consent is necessary to the legitimacy of any government.

I lay before you a copy of a letter from the judges of the circuit court of the United States held for the New York district.

The Constitution has also provided that the number of Representatives shall not exceed 1 for every 30,000.

The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers.