I have particularly contemplated, with this view, the acquisition of the eastern moiety of the peninsula between the lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie, extending it to the Connecticu...
Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which sh...
The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely take care of the pos...
I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on.
These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.
I therefore now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it.
The consolidation of the Mississippi Territory and the establishment of a barrier of separation between the Indians and our Southern neighbo...
The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for ...
But progressive difficulties in our foreign relations have brought into view considerations other than those which then prevailed.
It is now, perhaps, as interesting to obtain footing for a strong settlement of militia along our southern frontier eastward of the Mississi...
The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of this treaty, I now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of ...