such portions as have not heretofore been communicated of the instructions given to our ministers in France on the subject of claims for spoliations since September, 1800, and of t...
It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress.
It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for th...
I have determined to issue my proclamation of the 10th of December last.
I respectfully recommend that in the printing, if deemed necessary, such a discrimination be made as to avoid that incon...
I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, treaties that have b...
I also transmit the journal of the commissioners who negotiated these treaties.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information required.
I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to their ratification, treaties that have been co...
I lay before the Senate, for its consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of A...
In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the grea...