It must be superfluous to observe that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operation; that i...
The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part fro...
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to th...
I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territo...
I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.
I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has t...
The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communi...
Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature.
Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to ac...
we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of...
No occasion having arisen for making use. of any part of the balance of $18,012.50, unexpended on the 31st day of Decemb...
I immediately delivered to the attorney of the United States in this district the evidence received against them, with i...
The mass of what I have received in the course of these transactions is voluminous, but little has been given under the ...
Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr.
I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to l...
By this time it was known that many boats were under preparation, stores of provisions collecting, and an unusual number...
Great zeal was shewn by the inhabitants generally, the merchants of the place readily agreeing to the most laudable exer...
Information now recently communicated has brought us nearly to the period contemplated.
