We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity.
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...
The destruction of the Capitol by the enemy having made it necessary that other accommodations should be provided for th...
Whereas advantage has been taken of the loss of a fort more immediately guarding the neighboring town of Alexandria to p...
On an occasion which appeals so forcibly to the proud feelings and patriotic devotion of the American people none will f...
I, James Madison. President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, exhorting all the good people thereof t...
hereby requiring the respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive...
I recommend also, as a more effectual safeguard and encouragement to our growing manufactures, that the additional dutie...
I recommend a suitable provision for them.
The deplorable situation of the savages thrown by the same event on the mercy and humanity of the American commander at ...
It is possible that a perseverance of the enemy in their cruel policy may render a further expense for the like purpose ...
The necessity imposed by the conduct of the enemy in relation to the savages of admitting their cooperation in some inst...
To these abuses it may be added that illegal importations are openly made with advantage to the violators of the law.
To shorten as much as possible the duration of the war it is indispensable that the enemy should feel all the pressure t...
That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.
To remedy as much as possible these evils, I recommend: That an effectual embargo on exports be immediately enacted.
Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters are by like supplies accommodated and encouraged in their pre...
