The war has been waged on our part with scrupulous regard to all these obligations, and in a spirit of liberality which ...
These resources are amply sufficient to bring the war to an honorable issue.
To render the war short and its success sure, animated and systematic exertions alone are necessary.
Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our rights o...
Conformably to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of January last, I transmit \rolls of the pers...
The policy now proclaimed to the world introduces into her modes of warfare a system equally distinguished by the deform...
The general tendency of these demoralizing and disorganizing contrivances will be reprobated by the civilized and Christ...
The better to guard, nevertheless, against the effect of individual cupidity and treachery and to turn the corrupt proje...
The insulting attempt on the virtue, the honor, the patriotism, and the fidelity of our brethren of the Eastern States w...
The circumstances and the issue of this combat afford another example of the professional skill and heroic spirit which ...
I recommend to the consideration of Congress the equity and propriety of a general provision allowing in such cases, bot...
The signal display of both by Captain Bainbridge, his officers and crew, commands the highest praise.
I transmit, for the like purpose, copies of a letter from Commodore Rodgers to the Secretary of the Navy
I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a correspondence between John Mitchell, agent for American prison...
Too much praise can not be bestowed on that officer and his companions on board for the consummate skill and conspicuous...
examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility a...
A nation feeling what it owes to itself and to its citizens could never abandon to arbitrary violence on the ocean a cla...
Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and prospects, that a general embargo be laid on all vessels n...
