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.

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

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…

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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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…

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.

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…

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

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.

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.

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

The impressions on me are strengthened by such an evidence that my faithful endeavors to discharge my arduous duties have been favorably estimated.