I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on.
Should any want of power in the court to compel the rendering of testimony obstruct that full and impartial inquiry whic...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public o...
I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate fo...
I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ra...
I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
I have thought it best where urged by no peculiar necessity to leave to themselves and to the pressure of their own conv...
I have thought it would be important to obtain from the Indians such a cession in the neighborhood of these posts as mig...
The result has been an acquisition of so much only of what would have been acceptable as extends from the neighborhood o...
These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if ...
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the...
I communicate to Congress the inclosed letters from Governor Hull, respecting the Indians in the vicinity of Detroit res...
They contain information of the state of things in that quarter which will properly enter into their view in estimating ...
The communications now made, shewing the great and increasing dangers with which our vessels, our seamen, and merchandis...
I deem it my duty to recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress.
Their wisdom will also see the necessity of making every preparation for whatever events may grow out of the present cri...
Congress will learn from these papers the present state of the discussion on that transaction, and that it is to be tran...
