James Monroe: “I can not regard the pressures to which I have adverted otherwise than in the light of mild and instructive admonitions.”

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.

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.

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.