James Monroe: “In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.”

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 to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…

I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State

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