I transmit to each House of Congress a copy of the laws of the Territory of Michigan passed by the governor and judges o...
The quantity of freestone necessary, with the size and quality of many of the blocks, was represented as beyond what cou...
I took every measure within my power for carrying into effect the request of the House of Representatives of the 17th of...
With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished.
The other parts of the work, which might all have been completed in time, were necessarily retarded by the insufficient ...
I have the satisfaction to inform you that the negotiation depending between the United States and the Government of Gre...
It is, however, a work of time, as many arrangements are necessary to place our future harmony on stable grounds.
I can not, therefore, but recommend the suspension of this act for a reasonable time, on considerations of justice, amit...
Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged wi...
A step so friendly will afford further evidence that all our proceedings have flowed from views of justice and conciliat...
I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation, warning and enjoining all faithful citizens who have been...
And I hereby enjoin and require all officers, civil and military, of the United States, or of any of the States or Terri...
I require all good and faithful citizens and others within the United States to be aiding and assisting herein, and espe...
And if the said vessels, or any of them, shall fail to depart as aforesaid, or shall reenter the harbors or waters afore...
And I do forever interdict the entrance of all other vessels which shall be commanded by the said Henry Whitby, John Nai...
And I do hereby further require that the said armed vessel the Leander, with her officers and people, and the said armed...
Now, therefore, to the end that the said Henry Whitby may be brought to justice and due punishment inflicted for the sai...
And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the United States, and all othe...