These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on t...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...
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.
Until this question can be decided under legislative authority, measures have been taken according to law to prevent any...
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...
It is understood to have been a shoal or elevation of the bottom of the river adjacent to the bank of the suburbs of St....
This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
The great volume of the documents and the time necessary for the investigation will explain to the Senate the causes of ...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for t...
Although nothing forbids the general matter of these letters from being spoken of without reserve, yet as the publicatio...
The dangers to our country arising from the contests of other nations and the urgency of making preparation for whatever...
The precise extent of that augmentation can not as yet be satisfactorily suggested, but that no time may be lost, and es...
If an increase of force be now approved, I submit to their consideration the outlines of a plan proposed in the inclosed...
To secure ourselves by due precautions an augmentation of our military force, as well regular as of volunteer militia, s...
I recommend also to the attention of Congress the term at which the act of April 18, 1806, concerning the militia, will ...
In forming this decision I shall pay material regard to the interests and wishes of the populous parts of the State of O...
