Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and conferences respecting it matters will occur which interest som...
I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary...
The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation.
Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, an...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.
The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instruc...
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on the high seas, whatso...
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until the dangers to which...
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.