It is no less certain that scarcely any country offers more extensive opportunities for that branch of improvements than the United States, and none, perhaps, inducements equally persuasive to make the most of them.

The utility of canal navigation is universally admitted.

The particular undertaking contemplated by the State of New York, which marks an honorable spirit of enterprise and comprises objects of national as well as more limited importance, will recall the attention of Congress to the signal…

As some of those advantages have an intimate connection with the arrangements and exertions for the general security, it is at a period calling for those that the merits of such a system will be seen in the strongest lights.

While it is deeply lamented that so many valuable lives have been lost in the action which took place on the 7th ultimo, Congress will see with satisfaction the dauntless spirit and fortitude victoriously displayed by every description of…

It may reasonably be expected that the good effects of this critical defeat and dispersion of a combination of savages, which appears to have been spreading to a greater extent, will be experienced not only in a cessation of the murders…

The families of those brave and patriotic citizens who have fallen in this severe conflict will doubtless engage the favorable attention of Congress.

by which it will be seen that that subject of difference between the two countries is terminated by an offer of reparation, which has been acceded to.

I communicate to Congress copies of a correspondence between the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain and the Secretary of State relative to the aggression committed by a British ship of war on the United…

The unfriendly spirit of those disclosures indemnity and redress for other wrongs have continued to be withheld.

A prohibition is equally called for against the acceptance by our citizens of special licenses to be used in a trade with the United States.

It was hoped that the successive confirmations of the extinction of the French decrees would have induced the Government of Great Britain to repeal its orders in council.

We should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies.

To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag.

Our other foreign relations remain without unfavorable changes.

The practice of smuggling, which is odious everywhere, and particularly criminal in free governments.

I can not close this communication without expressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are assembled.

An enlarged philanthropy and an enlightened forecast concur in imposing on the national councils an obligation to take a deep interest in their destinies.