In vain may we expect peace with the Indians on our frontiers so long as a lawless set of unprincipled wretches can viol...
The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements,...
The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, which respect the subdivisions ...
Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the...
For this purpose I nominate Nathaniel Chipman to be judge of the district of Vermont; Stephen Jacobs to be attorney for ...
I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Governm...
Gentlemen of the Senate: The act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union having fixed on this as the d...
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.
I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers.
The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention...
I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.
I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Que...
I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.
I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informall...
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:
