James Monroe: “In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.”

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

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

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

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…