It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of t...
The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by t...
I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even ...
The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is dire...
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.
I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.
If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound t...
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act...
I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy
I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colom...
The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States rel...
It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest inter...
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone ...
That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of ...
