By a treaty signed at Pooshapuckanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from their and our boundary at the Omochita ea...
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public o...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
Should any want of power in the court to compel the rendering of testimony obstruct that full and impartial inquiry whic...
I have thought it would be important to obtain from the Indians such a cession in the neighborhood of these posts as mig...
I have thought it best where urged by no peculiar necessity to leave to themselves and to the pressure of their own conv...
I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate fo...
I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ra...
These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if ...
The result has been an acquisition of so much only of what would have been acceptable as extends from the neighborhood o...