In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also be...
Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of ships of war, some of which have been launched in the co...
Our military positions have been maintained at Belle Point, on the Arkansas, at Council Bluffs, on the Missouri, at St. ...
Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our sq...
On the subject of claims of citizens of the United States for Spanish spoliations upon their property and commerce.
I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State
together with the returns of causes depending in the courts of the United States
collected conformably to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January, 1819
With these remarks I submit it to the wisdom of Congress whether it will not still be advisable to postpone any decision...
He admits that the other objections are essentially removed and will not in themselves prevent the ratification, provide...
Unexpected as such complaints and such a demand were under existing circumstances, it was thought proper, without compro...
In regard to the stipulation proposed as the condition of the ratification of the treaty, that the United States shall a...
It appears, however, that the treaty is still unratified and that the minister has no authority to surrender the territo...
Had the minister of Spain offered an unqualified pledge that the treaty should be ratified by his Sovereign on being mad...
Under such circumstances the attention of the Spanish Government may be diverted from its foreign concerns, and the arri...
On full consideration of all these circumstances, I have thought it my duty to submit to Congress whether it will not be...
The distress of that nation at this juncture affords a motive for this forbearance which can not fail to be duly appreci...
I am the more induced to suggest this course of proceeding from a knowledge that, while we shall thereby make a just ret...
