Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.

A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to…

We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.

I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.

On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I embrace the opportunity to give this public assurance that I will exert my best endeavors to…

Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it.

Other details necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that shall be the subject of another communication.

In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations, of which the interests of our own country and the confidence…

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

In taking a view of the state of our country we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever which in latter times has occasionally visited our shores.

These payments, with those which had been made in 3 years and a half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly $18M of principal.

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved.

War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.

I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the…

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.

We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.

In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government.