John Adams said...

I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by t...

I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolu...

The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring na...