The promptitude and energy of Commodore Preble.
I recommend to the consideration of Congress a just indemnification for the interest acquired by the captors of the Mishouda and Mirboha, yi...
The proper decision of Captain Bainbridge that a vessel which had committed an open hostility was of right to be detained for inquiry and co...
All differences in consequence thereof have been amicably adjusted, and the treaty of 1786 between this country and that has been recognized...
In compliance with the desire of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 22d of November, on the impressment of seamen in the servic...
And to these I add what was indeed transacted in another quarter--the gallant enterprise of Captain Rodgers in destroying on the coast of Tr...
The efficacious cooperation of Captains Rodgers and Campbell, of the returning squadron.
The conduct of our officers generally who have had a part in these transactions has merited entire approbation.
The temperate and correct course pursued by our consul, Mr. Simpson.
You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not and could not be offi...
It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their futur...
From the nature of the transaction some documents relative to it might have been expected from the War Office.
I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislature in providing for...
I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and confinement of Zachariah Cox...
A translation of the most important laws in force in that province, now in press, shall be the subject of a supplementary communication.
I now lay before you the treaty mentioned in my general message at the opening of the session as having been concluded with the Kaskaskia In...
Progress having been made in the demarcation of Indian boundaries, I am now able to communicate to you.
In the meanwhile it is for Congress to consider the provisional authorities which may be necessary to restrain the depredations of this powe...
