Experience has taught us that neither the pacific dispositions of the American people nor the pacific character of their...
Peace, at all times a blessing, is peculiarly welcome.
The late war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort to assert the rights and independ...
I lose no time, therefore, in submitting the treaty to the Senate for their advice and approbation.
And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments, and prosecutions for fines, penalties, and forfeitu...
Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank
The bank proposed will be free from all legal obligation to cooperate with the public measures
In discharging this painful duty of stating objections to a measure which has undergone the deliberations and received t...
The most the bank could effect, would be to keep the institution alive by limited and local transactions
I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law
I transmit, for the information of Congress, the communications last received from the ministers extraordinary and pleni...
His blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace
They will be invited by the same solemn occasion to call to mind the distinguished favors conferred on the American peop...
I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiat...
The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and concl...
I transmit to Congress, for their information, copies of a letter from Admiral Cochrane, commanding His Britannic Majest...
His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but...
His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enri...
