My confidence in our minister plenipotentiary in London continues undiminished.
Peace ought to be pursued with unremitted zeal before the last resource, which has so often been the scourge of nations,...
A mission like this will announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and a reluctance...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, ...
GO. WASHINGTON.
I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerati...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the ...
The condition of things in that quarter requires the serious and immediate consideration of Congress.
the strongest assurances have been given that his recall should be expedited without delay
his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved
An establishment of this nature, by securing a regular and punctual accountability for the issues of public supplies, wo...
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Both justice and policy require that the source of that information should remain secret.
I shall not affect to conceal the cordial satisfaction which I derive from the address of the House of Representatives.
It is truly gratifying to me to learn that the proclamation has been considered as a seasonable guard against the interr...
For the fulfillment of your anticipations of the future I can give no other assurance than that the motives which you ap...
I think it my duty, therefore, to declare that I deem the nomination to have been null by the Constitution.
It has been agreed on the part of the United States that a treaty or conference shall be held at the ensuing season with...