The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce thems...
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fe...
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March ...
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and fr...
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secr...
According to the request of the Senate in their resolution of November 14, that copies should be laid before them of all...
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...
On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, over...
The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instruc...
Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exer...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing...
