"I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, with the reasons on which my dissent is founded."
"It is gratifying to the friends of both to perceive that the intercourse between the two people is becoming daily more extensive"
"Our relations with the various Indian tribes have been undisturbed since the termination of the difficulties growing out of the hostile aggressions of the Sac and Fox Indians"
"Since the last adjournment of Congress the Secretary of the Treasury has directed the money of the United States to be deposited in certain State banks designated by him"
"The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that portion of our navigation carried on by the use of steam power deserve the immediate and unremitting attention of the constituted aut..."
"Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives"
"The operations of the Navy during the year and its present condition are fully exhibited in the annual report from the Navy Department"
"Seeking nothing that is not right and determined to submit to nothing that is wrong"
"It is not known to me that up to that period any appropriation had been required of the Chambers"
"whether any, and, if any, what, Indian tribes or nations who joined the enemy in the late war with Great Britain continue to receive annuities from the United States under treaties made prior to the w..."
"I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate as to the ratification of the same, a treaty concluded with the Ottawa Indians residing on the Miami of Lake Erie on the 18th instant by t..."