James Monroe: “I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of War, furnishing all the information in the possession of that…”

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

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

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…

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