"His blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace"
"I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace with Great Britain, showing the conditions on which alone that Governm..."
"The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace, will be the subject of another communication."
"I transmit to Congress, for their information, copies of a letter from Admiral Cochrane, commanding His Britannic Majesty's naval forces on the American station, to the Secretary of State, with his an..."
"His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enriched and embellished its infant metropolis."
"His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but in the disaster and expulsion of such cruel invaders."
"We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity."
"In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld."
"The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteous projects."
"The destruction of the Capitol by the enemy having made it necessary that other accommodations should be provided for the meeting of Congress, chambers for the Senate and for the House of Representati..."
"Whereas advantage has been taken of the loss of a fort more immediately guarding the neighboring town of Alexandria to place the town within the range of a naval force too long and too much in the hab..."
"I, James Madison. President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, exhorting all the good people thereof to unite their hearts and hands in giving effect to the ample means possessed for..."