Without submission, coercion must be the resort.

Let us unite, therefore, in imploring the Supreme Ruler of Nations to spread his holy protection over these United States.

Let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States.

Nothing can more promote the permanent welfare of the nation and nothing would be more grateful to our constituents.

It has demonstrated that our prosperity rests on solid foundations.

To yield to the treasonable fury of so small a portion of the United States would be to violate the fundamental principle of our Constitution, which enjoins that the will of the majority shall prevail.

It is the duty of every citizen to contribute to the public good.

This intelligence brings a fresh proof of the insufficiency of the existing provisions of the laws toward the effectual cultivation and preservation of peace with our Indian neighbors.

this new state of things suggests the propriety of placing the United States in a posture of effectual preparation for an event which, notwithstanding the endeavors making to avert it, may by circumstances beyond our control be forced upon…

I have thought proper to nominate, and do hereby nominate, John Jay as envoy extraordinary of the United States to His Britannic Majesty.

My confidence in our minister plenipotentiary in London continues undiminished.

A mission like this will announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and a reluctance to hostility.

Peace ought to be pursued with unremitted zeal before the last resource, which has so often been the scourge of nations, is contemplated.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, advices concerning the Algerine mission from our minister at Lisbon and others, and a letter from the minister…

GO. WASHINGTON.

I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be communicated.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio on the 13th and 21st of March and the 7th of…

The condition of things in that quarter requires the serious and immediate consideration of Congress.