"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."
"Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it."
"The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination."
"Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever awake to them."
"Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question."
"Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another communication."
"I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system."
"An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination."
"A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relat..."
"These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principal."
"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 which in latter times has occasionally visited our shores."