James Monroe actually said...

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequa...

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its ...

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution o...

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