James Monroe: “...together with maps of the country through which the location is to be made.”

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

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.

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

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