Their services to be compensated are from the 1st day of June last.
A single article of $1,440, paid for bringing home 72 seamen discharged in foreign ports from vessels sold abroad, is th...
I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government.
I inclose a report of the Secretary of War, stating the trading houses established in the Indian territories.
In leading them thus to agriculture, to manufactures, and civilization; in bringing together their and our sentiments, a...
For these purposes a small appropriation would be necessary to meet the first expenses, after which they should support ...
These springs are said to possess the advantage of being accompanied with a bed of coal.
We consequently undersell private traders, foreign and domestic, drive them from the competition, and thus, with the goo...
In the strengthening and gratifying of these wants I see the only prospect of planting on the Mississippi itself the mea...
Duty has required me to submit these views to the judgment of the Legislature, but as their disclosure might embarrass a...
Indeed, it would be the most proper and acceptable form in which the annuity could be paid which we propose to give them...
The spoliations and irregularities committed on our commerce during the late war by subjects of Spain or by others deeme...
The Spanish Government listened to our proposition with an honorable readiness and agreed to a convention, which I now s...
It does not go to the satisfaction of all our claims, but the express reservation of our right to press the validity of ...
While my confidence in our minister plenipotentiary at Paris is entire and undiminished, I still think that these object...
But as the possession of these provinces is still in Spain, and the course of events may retard or prevent the cession t...
Should any others in consequence of this be made during the session of Congress, they shall be immediately communicated.
They are, as you will perceive, but a small proportion of the whole.
