To their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue, and will pursue with sincere zeal that which they shall approve.
We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.
Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.
In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever whi...
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information ne...
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I ...
I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.
These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principa...
An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another commu...
Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before...