I transmit also a copy of the late treaty of peace with Algiers, as certified by one of the commissioners of the United States.

I lay before the Senate, for their consideration and advice as to a ratification, a convention to regulate the commerce between the United States and Great Britain, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 3d of July last.

I, James Madison, President as aforesaid, have caused the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the United States and all others citizens or inhabitants thereof or being…

I congratulate you and our constituents upon an event which is highly honorable to the nation.

Peace, at all times a blessing, is peculiarly welcome.

Experience has taught us that neither the pacific dispositions of the American people nor the pacific character of their political institutions can altogether exempt them from that strife which appears beyond the ordinary lot of nations.

The late war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort to assert the rights and independence of the nation.

This source of national independence and wealth I anxiously recommend to the prompt and constant guardianship of Congress.

I lose no time, therefore, in submitting the treaty to the Senate for their advice and approbation.

And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments, and prosecutions for fines, penalties, and forfeitures against any person or persons who shall be entitled to the benefit of this full pardon forthwith to be stayed…

Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank

The bank proposed will be free from all legal obligation to cooperate with the public measures

The most the bank could effect, would be to keep the institution alive by limited and local transactions

I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law

In discharging this painful duty of stating objections to a measure which has undergone the deliberations and received the sanction of the two Houses of the National Legislature

I transmit, for the information of Congress, the communications last received from the ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States at Ghent, explaining the course and actual state of their negotiations with the…

His blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace

They will be invited by the same solemn occasion to call to mind the distinguished favors conferred on the American people