Before this convention was returned to Spain with our ratification the transfer of Louisiana by France to the United States took place, an e...
These made it a duty to require from that Government indemnifications for our injured citizens.
To them I communicate every fact material for their information and the documents necessary to enable them to judge for themselves.
She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish ports were included in ...
It was first manifested by her protest against the right of France to alienate Louisiana to us, which, however, was soon retracted and the r...
These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principa...
Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another commu...
Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before...
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.
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 hitherto obtained, will be...
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be e...
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 the fatal fever whi...
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information ne...
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I ...
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
