hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive...
This extreme resort is equally opposed to the interests of both, as it is to assurances of the most friendly disposition...
I have thought proper, in pursuance of the authorities specially given by law, to issue this my proclamation.
In truth, these abuses of the laws of hospitality have, with few exceptions, become habitual to the commanders of the Br...
Taking no part in the questions which animate these powers against each other, nor permitting themselves to entertain a ...
Hospitality under such circumstances ceases to be a duty.
I transmit to Congress a letter from our ministers plenipotentiary at London, informing us that they have agreed with th...
Also a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, acting as governor, informing us that Aaron Burr...
Also a letter from our minister plenipotentiary at Paris covering one to him from the minister of marine of that Governm...
From two of the States no returns have ever been received.
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to th...
It must be superfluous to observe that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operation; that i...
The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part fro...
I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territo...
I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.
The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communi...
I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has t...
Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to ac...
