That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing...
With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instruc...
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, over...
The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not...
It is found that no steps have been taken for the purpose.
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...
Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exer...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
I transmit to both Houses of Congress a letter from the envoy of His Britannic Majesty at this place to the Secretary of...
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and reti...
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil o...
I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writ...
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1...