James Monroe: “Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our…”

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…

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 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…

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.