With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the...
I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances hav...
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...
From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various par...
These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.
Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and con...
I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them ...
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the nu...
Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the ...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.
The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of militar...
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on t...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...
The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
