In the meanwhile it is for Congress to consider the provisional authorities which may be necessary to restrain the depredations of this powe...
I lay before you the convention signed on the 12th day of May last between the United States and Great Britain for settling their boundaries...
While we regret the miseries in which we see others involved, let us bow with gratitude.
hereby requiring their respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communicatio...
Whereas great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States form an extraordinary occasion for conveni...
Their services to be compensated are from the 1st day of June last.
The portion actually completed has rendered the situation of the persons confined much more comfortable and secure than it has been heretofo...
A single article of $1,440, paid for bringing home 72 seamen discharged in foreign ports from vessels sold abroad, is the only expenditure f...
I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government.
For these purposes a small appropriation would be necessary to meet the first expenses, after which they should support themselves and repay...
I inclose a report of the Secretary of War, stating the trading houses established in the Indian territories.
Indeed, it would be the most proper and acceptable form in which the annuity could be paid which we propose to give them for the cession.
In leading them thus to agriculture, to manufactures, and civilization; in bringing together their and our sentiments, and in preparing them...
We consequently undersell private traders, foreign and domestic, drive them from the competition, and thus, with the good will of the Indian...
Duty has required me to submit these views to the judgment of the Legislature, but as their disclosure might embarrass and defeat their effe...
In the strengthening and gratifying of these wants I see the only prospect of planting on the Mississippi itself the means of its own safety...
These springs are said to possess the advantage of being accompanied with a bed of coal.
The Spanish Government listened to our proposition with an honorable readiness and agreed to a convention, which I now submit for your advic...
