James Monroe: “Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate of the United States should be convened on Friday…”

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…

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

Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy

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…