There being sufficient ground to infer that it is the purpose of the enemy to combine with the blockade of our ports special licenses to neutral vessels or to British vessels in neutral disguises.

I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited to a convenient day in their next session, and removable in the meantime in the event of a cessation of the blockade…

keeping in view also the insidious discrimination between the different ports of the United States;

if not counteracted, will have the effect of diminishing very materially the pressure of the war on the enemy, and encouraging a perseverance in it,

If they agree, the appointments or treaties are made; if the Senate disagree, they fail.

The relation between the Senate and House of Representatives, in whom legislative power is concurrently vested, is sufficiently analogous to illustrate that between the Executive and Senate in making appointments and treaties.

Conceiving it to be my duty to decline the proposed conference with the committee.

The Swedish Government having repeatedly manifested a desire to interchange a public minister with the United States.

other considerations concurring to render it advisable at this period to make a correspondent appointment.

It is equally obvious that, for the purpose of preserving to each State its seafaring members, by excluding them from the vessels of the other, the mode heretofore proposed by the United States and now enacted by them as an article of…

If the reasonableness of expectations drawn from these considerations could guarantee their fulfillment a just peace would not be distant.

As an encouragement to persevering and invigorated exertions to bring the contest to a happy result, I have the satisfaction of being able to appeal to the auspicious progress of our arms both by land and on the water.

In recommending to the National Legislature this resort to additional taxes I feel great satisfaction in the assurance that our constituents, who have already displayed so much zeal and firmness in the cause of their country, will…

Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our rights on one element.

How little has been the effect of this example on the conduct of the enemy!

Not to contend for such a stake is to surrender our equality with other powers on the element common to all.

It was not declared on the part of the United States until it had been long made on them, in reality though not in name.

The war has been waged on our part with scrupulous regard to all these obligations, and in a spirit of liberality which was never surpassed.