James Monroe: “I transmit to Congress a copy of a letter from Governor Bibb to Major-General Jackson, connected with the late military…”

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.

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

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

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…