The state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations.
Peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty.
In these and all other matters which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country you may count with assurance on my hearty co...
That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, can not be permitted in a well-order...
No circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force.
Now know ye that I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, do hereby decide that all the above-mentioned shores, waters, inlets, ...
Their incompleteness is much to be regretted, and its remedy may at some future time be a subject worthy the attention of Congress.
This accident renders it expedient to increase our force and enlarge our expenses in the Mediterranean beyond what the last appropriation fo...
I recommend, therefore, to the consideration of Congress such an addition to that appropriation as they may think the exigency requires.
Governor Claiborne, being duly invested with the powers heretofore exercised by the governor and intendant of Louisiana, assumed the governm...
Our commissioners, on their arrival at New Orleans, found the Province already delivered by the commissioners of Spain to that of France, wh...
In execution of the act of the present session of Congress for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France, and for the tempora...
No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of $18,560 unexpended at the end of the last yea...
The Senate will judge whether the prospect it offers will justify a longer suspension of that portion of indemnities conceded by Spain shoul...
I now communicate what has since passed on that subject.
As the settlement of the boundaries of Louisiana will call for new negotiations on our receiving possession of that Province, the claims not...
In compliance with the desire of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 22d of November, on the impressment of seamen in the servic...
The temperate and correct course pursued by our consul, Mr. Simpson.
