James Monroe: “...authorizing the location of a road from Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, to a point on the left bank of the…”

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

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

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.

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.