Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever awake to them.

Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it.

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.

Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.

These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principal.

In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations, of which the interests of our own country and the confidence…

My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?

In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.

What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.

In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government.

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved.

We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.

I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union.

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.

I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the…

It will be perceived that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Tennessee no returns are stated.

No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of $18,560 unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1803, when the last account was rendered by message, that balance has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund.

The energy and judgment displayed by this excellent officer through the whole course of the service lately confided to him and the zeal and valor of his officers and men in the several enterprises executed by them can not fail to give high…

These treaties, having been advised and consented to by the Senate, have accordingly been ratified, but as they involve conditions which require legislative provision, they are now submitted to both branches for consideration.

As these documents appear to form a necessary appendage to those already before Congress, and throw additional light on the subject, I transmit copies of them herewith.

I think it my duty without further delay to communicate to the House the information I possess, however imperfect.