Experience has taught us that neither the pacific dispositions of the American people nor the pacific character of their...
I congratulate you and our constituents upon an event which is highly honorable to the nation.
I, James Madison, President as aforesaid, have caused the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin all persons...
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...
The most the bank could effect, would be to keep the institution alive by limited and local transactions
In discharging this painful duty of stating objections to a measure which has undergone the deliberations and received t...
The bank proposed will be free from all legal obligation to cooperate with the public measures
Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank
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...
They will be invited by the same solemn occasion to call to mind the distinguished favors conferred on the American peop...
His blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace
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 barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enri...
In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld.
