She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish por...
These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nea...
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and al...
In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under...
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners...
An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subj...
Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have u...
I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.
The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.
We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hither...
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that ...
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term o...
But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?
What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calc...
