The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will p...
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March next, you are desire...
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habit...
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasur...
According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all the orders and decr...
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, concerning a road from Cu...
On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.
That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing a suspension, in wh...
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the embargo by the Execut...
With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to...
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, overspread the ocean wit...
The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred ...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled me to inform you that...
I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for publication, yet necessary...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fellow citizens in gen...
