James Monroe: “Among these none holds a more important place than the public revenue.”

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…

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…

It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.