In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations, of which the interests of our own country and the confidence…

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.

We must join in the unprofitable contest of trying which party can do the other the most harm.

I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.

A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to…

I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the…

In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government.

My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.

But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?

What farmer, what mechanic, what laborer ever sees a taxgatherer of the United States?

I know that the acquisition of Louisiana had been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union.

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.

In all events, it will replace the advances we shall have made.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.

I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved.

We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use.

No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of the balance of $18,560 unexpended on the 31st day of December, 1803, when the last account was rendered by message, that balance has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund.