James Monroe: “Happy as our situation is, it does not exempt us from solicitude and care for the future.”

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.

I transmit herewith to Congress copies of letters received at the Department of State from the minister of Great Britain on the subject of the duties discriminating between imported rolled and hammered iron.

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents called for by that resolution.

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.