My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.
What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?
But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?
War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.
I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which ...
It will be perceived that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the States of Maryland, Delaware, and Tennessee no returns ar...
No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of $18,560 unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1803, when the last a...
The energy and judgment displayed by this excellent officer through the whole course of the service lately confided to him and the zeal and ...
These treaties, having been advised and consented to by the Senate, have accordingly been ratified, but as they involve conditions which req...
As these documents appear to form a necessary appendage to those already before Congress, and throw additional light on the subject, I trans...
I think it my duty without further delay to communicate to the House the information I possess, however imperfect.