Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be…

The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The protection of individual rights is the cornerstone of a free society.

The extraordinary expenses to be incurred in the present year in supporting our foreign intercourse I find will require a provision beyond the ordinary appropriation and the additional $20,000 already granted.

The measures now in operation for taking possession of the posts of Detroit and Michilimackinac render it proper that provision should be made for extending to these places and any others alike circumstanced the civil authority of the…

I lay before you, for your consideration and advice, an explanatory article proposed to be added to the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Great Britain.

I now nominate Jeremiah Wadsworth to be a commissioner to hold a treaty with the Cohnawaga Indians.

Herewith I lay before you a letter from the Attorney-General of the United States, relative to compensation to the attorneys of the United States in the several districts, which is recommended to your consideration.

admission as a State, by its Delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever

the right of forming a permanent constitution and State government

I nominate as commissioners on the part of the United States.