An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nea...
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that ...
A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hither...
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term o...
We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.
I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and al...
In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under...
Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have u...
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners...
Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subj...
I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of tho...
War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improve...
I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the...
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal t...
