"They probably believed it best to let pass into oblivion transactions which, however culpable, had commenced before this Government existed, and had been finally extinguished by the treaty of 1795."
"I transmit them to Congress, as a further proof of the increasing dangers to our navigation and commerce."
"Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which should be to our convenience."
"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 eastwardly to their bo..."
"I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on."
"But progressive difficulties in our foreign relations have brought into view considerations other than those which then prevailed."
"It is now, perhaps, as interesting to obtain footing for a strong settlement of militia along our southern frontier eastward of the Mississippi as on the west of that river."
"The consolidation of the Mississippi Territory and the establishment of a barrier of separation between the Indians and our Southern neighbors are also important objects;"
"The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for payment, proposed to the United States to cede lands to the ..."
"These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined."
"I therefore now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it."
"The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely take care of the post, and to a reliance on the neighboring militia for its supp..."