The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence...
Under a continuance of the belligerent measures which, in defiance of laws which consecrate the rights of neutrals, overspread the ocean wit...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.
It is found that no steps have been taken for the purpose.
I transmit to both Houses of Congress a letter from the envoy of His Britannic Majesty at this place to the Secretary of State on the subjec...
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shal...
hereby commanding such insurgents and all concerned in such combination instantly and without delay to disperse and retire peaceably to thei...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals b...
I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writers, and dates of ti...
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1807, never came to m...