The state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations.
Peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty.
In these and all other matters which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country you may count with assurance on my hearty co...
No circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force.
Now know ye that I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, do hereby decide that all the above-mentioned shores, waters, inlets, ...
Their incompleteness is much to be regretted, and its remedy may at some future time be a subject worthy the attention of Congress.
This accident renders it expedient to increase our force and enlarge our expenses in the Mediterranean beyond what the last appropriation fo...
I recommend, therefore, to the consideration of Congress such an addition to that appropriation as they may think the exigency requires.
Our commissioners, on their arrival at New Orleans, found the Province already delivered by the commissioners of Spain to that of France, wh...
Governor Claiborne, being duly invested with the powers heretofore exercised by the governor and intendant of Louisiana, assumed the governm...
In execution of the act of the present session of Congress for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France, and for the tempora...