I have thought it proper to communicate to Congress the letter detailing this incident, that they may fully understand the state of things in that quarter and be enabled to make su...
It was reasonably expected that while the limits between the territories of the United States and of Spain were unsettled neither party woul...
We have no information of this letter but through the channel of the party interested in the ship, nor any proof of it more authentic than t...
On this subject any further desire which the Senate shall think proper to express shall be complied with.
If these be within the scope of the request of the Senate, the printed copies can be sent in immediately, but if translations be necessary s...
We entered the Missouri May 14, 1804, and on the 1st of November took up our winter quarters near the Mandan towns, 1,609 miles above the mo...
The examination of the Red River itself is but now commencing.
Having been disappointed, after considerable preparation, in the purpose of sending an exploring party up that river in the summer of 1804, ...
Although nothing forbids the substance of these letters from being communicated without reserve, yet so many ill effects proceed from the pu...
I am not informed whether the positions ceded are the best which can be taken for securing their respective objects.
The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of these several treaties and conventions, I now lay them before both Houses of ...