"The particular undertaking contemplated by the State of New York, which marks an honorable spirit of enterprise and comprises objects of national as well as more limited importance, will recall the at..."
"As some of those advantages have an intimate connection with the arrangements and exertions for the general security, it is at a period calling for those that the merits of such a system will be seen ..."
"While it is deeply lamented that so many valuable lives have been lost in the action which took place on the 7th ultimo, Congress will see with satisfaction the dauntless spirit and fortitude victorio..."
"It may reasonably be expected that the good effects of this critical defeat and dispersion of a combination of savages, which appears to have been spreading to a greater extent, will be experienced no..."
"The families of those brave and patriotic citizens who have fallen in this severe conflict will doubtless engage the favorable attention of Congress."
"by which it will be seen that that subject of difference between the two countries is terminated by an offer of reparation, which has been acceded to."
"I communicate to Congress copies of a correspondence between the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain and the Secretary of State relative to the aggression committed by a ..."
"It was hoped that the successive confirmations of the extinction of the French decrees would have induced the Government of Great Britain to repeal its orders in council."
"The unfriendly spirit of those disclosures indemnity and redress for other wrongs have continued to be withheld."
"Our other foreign relations remain without unfavorable changes."
"An enlarged philanthropy and an enlightened forecast concur in imposing on the national councils an obligation to take a deep interest in their destinies."
"The practice of smuggling, which is odious everywhere, and particularly criminal in free governments."