I send likewise a list of similar appointments, also furnished by the Secretary of State and of record in his office, fr...
As but one copy of these acts was sent to me, I am prevented from communicating them by a joint message to the two House...
such portions as have not heretofore been communicated of the instructions given to our ministers in France on the subje...
It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for th...
I respectfully recommend that in the printing, if deemed necessary, such a discrimination be made as to avoid that incon...
I have determined to issue my proclamation of the 10th of December last.
It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress.
I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, treaties that have b...
I also transmit the journal of the commissioners who negotiated these treaties.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information required.
I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to their ratification, treaties that have been co...
I lay before the Senate, for its consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of A...
It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an un...
I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled 'An act prov...
Had there been incorporated in the bill no provisions for works of a different description, depending on principles whic...
With these reasons and considerations I return the bill to the Senate.
I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforcement.
In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the grea...
