James Monroe: “It is enjoined on the Executive to cause all negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color who may be taken under the act to…”

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

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.

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…

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.