James Monroe: “For the last three years the Government of Spain has not sent a single corps of troops to any part of that country, nor…”

It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.

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…

Upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy

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