"From the State of Delaware alone no return has been made."
"These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season."
"From these causes the defense of our seaboard, so necessary to be pressed during the present season, will in various parts be defeated unless a remedy can be applied."
"With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the powers vested in them by the Constitution, combined with the amendment providin..."
"I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances have been previously obtained, exclusive legislation can not be exercised therein b..."
"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 sometimes and sometimes..."
"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 and confidential papers herewith inclosed, with such refere..."
"I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public."
"The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instructed subjects in the different branches of artillery and engi..."
"The want of such characters is already sensibly felt, and will be increased with the enlargement of our plans of military preparation."
"The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention."
"Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, and will furnish opportunities of selecting on better informat..."