Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:

Both justice and policy require that the source of that information should remain secret.

For the fulfillment of your anticipations of the future I can give no other assurance than that the motives which you approve shall continue unchanged.

I shall not affect to conceal the cordial satisfaction which I derive from the address of the House of Representatives.

It is truly gratifying to me to learn that the proclamation has been considered as a seasonable guard against the interruption of the public peace.

I think it my duty, therefore, to declare that I deem the nomination to have been null by the Constitution.

It has been agreed on the part of the United States that a treaty or conference shall be held at the ensuing season with the hostile Indians northwest of the Ohio.

I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the year 1792 from the sum of $10,000.

May we always be led by justice and not by mere ambition.

I do moreover offer a reward of $500 for each and every of the above-named persons who shall be so apprehended and brought to justice.

I have therefore thought fit to issue this my proclamation, hereby exhorting all the citizens of the United States and requiring all the officers thereof, according to their respective stations, to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend and bring those offenders to justice.

I have received authentic information that certain lawless and wicked persons of the western frontier in the State of Georgia did lately invade, burn, and destroy a town belonging to the Cherokee Nation.

upon the result of your deliberations the future conduct of the Executive will on this occasion materially depend.

The several measures which have been pursued to induce the hostile Indian tribes north of the Ohio to enter into a conference or treaty with the United States at which all causes of difference might be fully understood and justly and amicably arranged have already been submitted to both Houses of Congress.

It will remain with the Legislature to take such measures as it shall think best for settling the said boundary with that State.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In pursuance of the law, I now lay before you a statement of the administration of the funds appropriated to certain foreign purposes.

I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier.

It would be wise, however, by timely provisions to guard against those acts of our own citizens which might tend to disturb [peace]...