I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited...
keeping in view also the insidious discrimination between the different ports of the United States;
There being sufficient ground to infer that it is the purpose of the enemy to combine with the blockade of our ports spe...
if not counteracted, will have the effect of diminishing very materially the pressure of the war on the enemy, and encou...
Conceiving it to be my duty to decline the proposed conference with the committee.
The relation between the Senate and House of Representatives, in whom legislative power is concurrently vested, is suffi...
If they agree, the appointments or treaties are made; if the Senate disagree, they fail.
other considerations concurring to render it advisable at this period to make a correspondent appointment.
The Swedish Government having repeatedly manifested a desire to interchange a public minister with the United States.
As an encouragement to persevering and invigorated exertions to bring the contest to a happy result, I have the satisfac...
In recommending to the National Legislature this resort to additional taxes I feel great satisfaction in the assurance t...
If the reasonableness of expectations drawn from these considerations could guarantee their fulfillment a just peace wou...
It is equally obvious that, for the purpose of preserving to each State its seafaring members, by excluding them from th...
If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure u...
Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our rights o...
Not to contend for such a stake is to surrender our equality with other powers on the element common to all.
It was not declared on the part of the United States until it had been long made on them, in reality though not in name.
The war has been waged on our part with scrupulous regard to all these obligations, and in a spirit of liberality which ...
