To yield to the treasonable fury of so small a portion of the United States would be to violate the fundamental principle of our Constitutio...
It is the duty of every citizen to contribute to the public good.
This intelligence brings a fresh proof of the insufficiency of the existing provisions of the laws toward the effectual cultivation and pres...
this new state of things suggests the propriety of placing the United States in a posture of effectual preparation for an event which, notwi...
A mission like this will announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and a reluctance to hostility.
My confidence in our minister plenipotentiary in London continues undiminished.
Peace ought to be pursued with unremitted zeal before the last resource, which has so often been the scourge of nations, is contemplated.
I have thought proper to nominate, and do hereby nominate, John Jay as envoy extraordinary of the United States to His Britannic Majesty.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, advices concerning t...
GO. WASHINGTON.
I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the te...
The condition of things in that quarter requires the serious and immediate consideration of Congress.
the strongest assurances have been given that his recall should be expedited without delay
his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved
An establishment of this nature, by securing a regular and punctual accountability for the issues of public supplies, would be a great guard...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Both justice and policy require that the source of that information should remain secret.
