Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the d...
For this purpose I nominate Nathaniel Chipman to be judge of the district of Vermont; Stephen Jacobs to be attorney for ...
I have therefore thought it expedient to nominate Thomas Auldjo to be vice-consul for the United States at the port of P...
I also nominate James Yard, of Pennsylvania, to be consul for the United States in the island of Santa Cruz.
The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention...
I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers.
I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Que...
I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.
I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informall...
I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.
I have received from the governor of Vermont authentic documents, expressing the consent of the legislatures of New York...
In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter,...
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:
I lay before you the copy of a letter from the President of the National Assembly of France to the President of the Unit...
I rely upon your wisdom to make such arrangements as may be essential for the preservation of good order and the effectu...
I have thought best to await a survey of the territory before it is decided on what particular spot on the northeastern ...
I have by a proclamation bearing date this day directed commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act, to survey and ...
I have not by this first act given to the said territory the whole extent of which it is susceptible in the direction of...
