I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiat...
The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and concl...
I transmit to Congress, for their information, copies of a letter from Admiral Cochrane, commanding His Britannic Majest...
In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld.
His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enri...
His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but...
The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteou...
We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity.
The destruction of the Capitol by the enemy having made it necessary that other accommodations should be provided for th...
I, James Madison. President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, exhorting all the good people thereof t...
Whereas advantage has been taken of the loss of a fort more immediately guarding the neighboring town of Alexandria to p...
On an occasion which appeals so forcibly to the proud feelings and patriotic devotion of the American people none will f...
hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive...
I recommend also, as a more effectual safeguard and encouragement to our growing manufactures, that the additional dutie...
The necessity imposed by the conduct of the enemy in relation to the savages of admitting their cooperation in some inst...
The deplorable situation of the savages thrown by the same event on the mercy and humanity of the American commander at ...
I recommend a suitable provision for them.
It is possible that a perseverance of the enemy in their cruel policy may render a further expense for the like purpose ...
