And I do hereby further authorize and direct all suits, indictments, and prosecutions for fines, penalties, and forfeitures against any person or persons who shall be entitled to the benefit of this full pardon forthwith to be stayed…

I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law

Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank

In discharging this painful duty of stating objections to a measure which has undergone the deliberations and received the sanction of the two Houses of the National Legislature

The most the bank could effect, would be to keep the institution alive by limited and local transactions

The bank proposed will be free from all legal obligation to cooperate with the public measures

I transmit, for the information of Congress, the communications last received from the ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States at Ghent, explaining the course and actual state of their negotiations with the…

His blessing on their arms, and a speedy restoration of peace

They will be invited by the same solemn occasion to call to mind the distinguished favors conferred on the American people

The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on which they were authorized to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace, will be the subject of another communication.

I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace with Great Britain, showing the conditions on which alone that Government is willing to put an end to the war.

I transmit to Congress, for their information, copies of a letter from Admiral Cochrane, commanding His Britannic Majesty's naval forces on the American station, to the Secretary of State, with his answer, and of a reply from Admiral…

In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld.

The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteous projects.

His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enriched and embellished its infant metropolis.

His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not to be extinguished but in the disaster and expulsion of such cruel invaders.

We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity.

The destruction of the Capitol by the enemy having made it necessary that other accommodations should be provided for the meeting of Congress, chambers for the Senate and for the House of Representatives, with other requisite apartments…