These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nea...
Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that ...
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and al...
In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under...
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners...
The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.
I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.
I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of...
War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improve...
I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the...
The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal t...
We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.
In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers ...
My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the ...
In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calc...
