The friendly sentiment which was expressed on the part of the United States in the message of the 9th of May last is still entertained for Spain.
A few prominent facts will place this great interest in a just light before you.
In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the c...
I see much cause to rejoice in the felicity of our situation.
Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our squadron in the Medite...
Our military positions have been maintained at Belle Point, on the Arkansas, at Council Bluffs, on the Missouri, at St. Peters, on the Missi...
Happy as our situation is, it does not exempt us from solicitude and care for the future.
The question depending between the United States and Great Britain respecting the construction of the first article of the treaty of Ghent h...
Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of ships of war, some of which have been launched in the course of the present ...
I can not regard the pressures to which I have adverted otherwise than in the light of mild and instructive admonitions.
The commercial relations between the United States and the British colonies in the West Indies and on this continent have undergone no chang...