From the State of Delaware alone no return has been made.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States ac...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various parts be defeated unles...
Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and conferences respecting ...
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.
Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, an...
The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation.
The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instruc...
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on the high seas, whatso...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until the dangers to which...
The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public fiduciaries and for...
This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
Until this question can be decided under legislative authority, measures have been taken according to law to prevent any change in the state...
