Martin Van Buren: “I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, which is accompanied by a copy and translation of the pamphlet…”

if it should be the pleasure of Congress that the preparatory exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States should be completed

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their resolution of the 21st instant.

Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with debt...

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the…