James Monroe: “I now transmit a report from the Secretary of War, with the papers inclosed, which contains the information desired.”

I transmit herewith to the House a report from the Secretary of State with copies of the correspondence relating to the claims of the citizens of the United States upon the Government of the Netherlands, requested by a resolution of the…

This power can be granted only by an amendment to the Constitution and in the mode prescribed by it.

I have thought that the United States should act with a generous spirit; that they should omit nothing which should comport with a liberal construction of the instrument and likewise be in accordance with the just rights of those tribes.

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