I have thought it due to the Senate as well as to myself to explain to them the circumstances which have withheld from t...
On this outrage no commentaries are necessary.
I did not hesitate, therefore, to authorize engagements for such supplements to our existing stock as would render it ad...
These aggravations necessarily lead to the policy either of never admitting an armed vessel into our harbors or of maint...
It is a great consolation that it will become known at a moment when the supreme council of the nation is assembled at i...
I shall think it my duty to lay before you the proceedings and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the...
a full pardon is hereby proclaimed to each and all of such individuals as shall within four months from the date hereof ...
Whereas great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States form an extraordinary ...
hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive...
Hospitality under such circumstances ceases to be a duty.
In truth, these abuses of the laws of hospitality have, with few exceptions, become habitual to the commanders of the Br...
Taking no part in the questions which animate these powers against each other, nor permitting themselves to entertain a ...
This extreme resort is equally opposed to the interests of both, as it is to assurances of the most friendly disposition...
I have thought proper, in pursuance of the authorities specially given by law, to issue this my proclamation.
I transmit to Congress a letter from our ministers plenipotentiary at London, informing us that they have agreed with th...
Also a letter from our minister plenipotentiary at Paris covering one to him from the minister of marine of that Governm...
Also a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, acting as governor, informing us that Aaron Burr...
From two of the States no returns have ever been received.
