Martin Van Buren: “I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, explaining the causes which have prevented a compliance with the…”

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 think proper to communicate to the House of Representatives, in further answer to their resolution of the 21st ultimo, the correspondence which has since occurred between the Secretary of State and the British minister on the same…

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, containing the information asked for by the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad.