I also pray you to be persuaded that your individual welfare and prosperity will always be with me objects of that solicitude which the illustrious services of the great friend and benefactor of my country are calculated to awaken.

I also assure you of the condolence of this whole nation in the irreparable bereavement which by that event you have sustained.

No injustice can be done to the Indians by the ratification of this treaty.

I have been, therefore, desirous that a just and satisfactory arrangement should be made for their removal, and propositions to that effect upon a liberal scale have been repeatedly made to them.

Sometimes it has been done by persons representing the tribe and sometimes by the individuals composing it.

When that assent is given no one can justly deny its obligation.

In early life he embarked in that contest which secured freedom and independence to our country.

He therefore orders that the same honors be rendered upon this occasion at the different military and naval stations as were observed upon the decease of Washington, the Father of his Country, and his contemporary in arms.

In his own country and in ours he was the zealous and uniform friend and advocate of rational liberty.

His services and sacrifices constitute a part of our Revolutionary history, and his memory will be second only to that of Washington in the hearts of the American people.

In ordering this homage to be paid to the memory of one so eminent in the field, so wise in council, so endeared in private life, and so well and favorably known to both hemispheres the President feels assured that he is anticipating the…

Lafayette was a citizen of France, but he was the distinguished friend of the United States.

I transmit to the House of Representatives, for their consideration, a memorial from the granddaughters of the Count de Rochambeau, together with their letter to the minister of the United States in France, from whom these papers have been…

To avoid misrepresentation I herewith transmit a copy of the paper in question, which was the only communication made to Mr. Stevenson on the subject.

I appointed Mr. Edmund Roberts a special agent of this Government for the purpose of visiting those seas and concluding such commercial conventions as might have the effect of securing additional advantages to our trade in that quarter.

The expenses of the agency have been defrayed out of the contingent fund for foreign intercourse.

The reports and papers in relation to these removals are herewith transmitted to the Senate

I have believed it to be an act of justice to Mr. St. Clair to present his name again to the Senate