"By this time it was known that many boats were under preparation, stores of provisions collecting, and an unusual number of suspicious characters in motion on the Ohio and its waters."
"Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr."
"Great zeal was shewn by the inhabitants generally, the merchants of the place readily agreeing to the most laudable exertions and sacrifices for manning the armed vessels with their seamen."
"I had for some time been in the constant expectation of receiving such further information as would have enabled me to lay before the Legislature the termination as well as the beginning and progress ..."
"I transmit to each House of Congress a copy of the laws of the Territory of Michigan passed by the governor and judges of the Territory during the year 1805."
"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 the south wing of the Capitol to be prepared for their acco..."
"With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished."
"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 could be commanded."
"The other parts of the work, which might all have been completed in time, were necessarily retarded by the insufficient progress of the stonework."
"Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty."
"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 interests."