The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.
The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.
My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republ...
It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been ...
But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interes...
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.
I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy
The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia ser...
It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.
I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the...
That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its ...
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequa...
I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution o...
From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union
Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected ...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of January 5, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy, w...
