James Monroe: “This letter has been mislaid, or it would have been communicated with the other documents at the commencement of the…”

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

From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union

I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, that no such document had been deposited among the archives of the Department, I examined and found among my private…

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.