Also a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, acting as governor, informing us that Aaron Burr had surrendered him...
From two of the States no returns have ever been received.
It must be superfluous to observe that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operation; that it can have but littl...
The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part from that of galleys fo...
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to the Secretary of War, ...
I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory at their session ...
I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.
The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communicated to Congress.
Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature.
I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has the subject still und...
Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to accept nor reject fina...
we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of the purposes of Mr....
No occasion having arisen for making use. of any part of the balance of $18,012.50, unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1805, that balan...
I immediately delivered to the attorney of the United States in this district the evidence received against them, with instructions to lay t...
Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.
By this time it was known that many boats were under preparation, stores of provisions collecting, and an unusual number of suspicious chara...
Great zeal was shewn by the inhabitants generally, the merchants of the place readily agreeing to the most laudable exertions and sacrifices...
Information now recently communicated has brought us nearly to the period contemplated.
