The quantity of freestone necessary, with the size and quality of many of the blocks, was represented as beyond what could be obtained from the quarries by any exertions which coul...
I took every measure within my power for carrying into effect the request of the House of Representatives of the 17th of April last to cause...
I have the satisfaction to inform you that the negotiation depending between the United States and the Government of Great Britain is procee...
A step so friendly will afford further evidence that all our proceedings have flowed from views of justice and conciliation.
I can not, therefore, but recommend the suspension of this act for a reasonable time, on considerations of justice, amity, and the public in...
Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty.
It is, however, a work of time, as many arrangements are necessary to place our future harmony on stable grounds.
I require all good and faithful citizens and others within the United States to be aiding and assisting herein, and especially in the discov...
And I hereby enjoin and require all officers, civil and military, of the United States, or of any of the States or Territories, and especial...
I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation, warning and enjoining all faithful citizens who have been led without due kno...
And I do hereby further require that the said armed vessel the Leander, with her officers and people, and the said armed vessels the Cambria...