James Monroe: “I now transmit a report from the Secretary of State, which, with the documents accompanying it, embraces the objects…”

Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and on mature consideration, I deem it…

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.

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

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