In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter, I lay before you th...
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the United States, and of a ...
I rely upon your wisdom to make such arrangements as may be essential for the preservation of good order and the effectual protection of the...
I have thought best to await a survey of the territory before it is decided on what particular spot on the northeastern side of the river th...
I have not by this first act given to the said territory the whole extent of which it is susceptible in the direction of the river, because ...
I have by a proclamation bearing date this day directed commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act, to survey and limit a part of the ...
I do appoint them the said Thomas Johnson, Daniel Carroll and David Stuart, Commissioners for surveying the District of Territory accepted b...
I recommend the same to your consideration, that I may be enabled to give to it such answer as may best comport with the justice and the int...
I lay before you a representation of the charge' d'affaires of France.
GO. WASHINGTON.
I shall conceive myself bound to exert the powers intrusted to me by the Constitution in order to carry into faithful execution the treaty o...
the United States formed a treaty with the Cherokees in November, 1785
the treaty with the Creeks may be regarded as the main foundation of the future peace and prosperity of the Southwestern frontier of the Uni...
the white people settled on the frontiers had openly violated the said boundary by intruding on the Indian lands
It is to be expected that it will also in its consequences be the means of firmly attaching the Creeks and the neighboring tribes to the int...
But although the most valuable of the disputed land is included, yet there is a certain claim of Georgia...
I have directed the commissioner to whom the charge of adjusting this treaty has been committed to lay before you such papers and documents....
