James Monroe: “As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of…”

I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…