Excepting as to the brave men who have fallen on the occasion, and who are a subject of public as well as private regret.
I received yesterday from the judge of the district of South Carolina a letter,...
The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, which respect the subdivisions of the districts int...
Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus...
The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little a...
In vain may we expect peace with the Indians on our frontiers so long as a lawless set of unprincipled wretches can violate the rights of ho...
Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the day of its admission,...
I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Government into motion in t...
For this purpose I nominate Nathaniel Chipman to be judge of the district of Vermont; Stephen Jacobs to be attorney for the United States in...
I have therefore thought it expedient to nominate Thomas Auldjo to be vice-consul for the United States at the port of Poole, in Great Brita...
I also nominate James Yard, of Pennsylvania, to be consul for the United States in the island of Santa Cruz.
I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers.
The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention.
I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.
I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal.
I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informally into the conferenc...
I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.
I have received from the governor of Vermont authentic documents, expressing the consent of the legislatures of New York and of the Territor...
