From two of the States no returns have ever been received.
I communicate, for the information of Congress, a letter from Cowles Mead, secretary of the Mississippi Territory, to th...
It must be superfluous to observe that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operation; that i...
The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part fro...
I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territo...
I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.
I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has t...
Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature.
The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communi...
Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to ac...
we may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of...