I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.
The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
To prevent altogether the entrance of large vessels, a line of blocks across the harbor has been contemplated.
The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habit...
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fellow-citizens will p...
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate should be convened on Saturday, the 4th day of March next, you are desire...
According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasur...