To a people, fellow citizens, who sincerely desire the happiness and prosperity of other nations; to those who justly calculate that their own well-being is advanced by that of the nations with which they have intercourse, it will be a satisfaction to observe that the war which was lighted up in Europe a little before our last meeting has not yet extended its flames to other nations, nor been marked by the calamities which sometimes stain the foot-steps of war. The irregularities, too, on the ocean, which generally harass the commerce of neutral nations, have, in distant parts, disturbed ours less than on former occasions; but in the American seas they have been greater from peculiar causes, and even within our harbors and jurisdiction infringements on the authority of the laws have been committed which have called for serious attention. The friendly conduct of the Governments from whose officers and subjects these acts have proceeded, in other respects and in places more under their observation and control, gives us confidence that our representations on this subject will have been properly regarded. While noticing the irregularities committed on the ocean by others, those on our own part should not be omitted nor left unprovided for. Complaints have been received that persons residing within the United States have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries in defiance of the laws of those countries. That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, can not be permitted in a well-ordered society. Its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious that I doubt not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future. Soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain. Candid explanations were immediately given and assurances that, reserving our claims in that quarter as a subject of discussion and arrangement with Spain, no act was meditated in the mean time inconsistent with the peace and friendship existing between the 2 nations, and that conformably to these intentions would be the execution of the law. That Government had, however, thought proper to suspend the ratification of the convention of 1802; but the explanations which would reach them soon after, and still more the confirmation of them by the tenor of the instrument establishing the port and district, may reasonably be expected to replace them in the dispositions and views of the whole subject which originally dictated the convention. I have the satisfaction to inform you that the objections which had been urged by that Government against the validity of our title to the country of Louisiana have been withdrawn, its exact limits, however, remaining still to be settled between us; and to this is to be added that, having prepared and delivered the stock created in execution of the convention of Paris of 1803 April 30, in consideration of the cession of that country, we have received from the Government of France an acknowledgment, in due form, of the fulfillment of that stipulation. With the nations of Europe in general our friendship and intercourse are undisturbed, and from the Governments of the belligerent powers especially we continue to receive those friendly manifestations which are justly due to an honest neutrality and to such good offices consistent with that as we have opportunities of rendering. The activity and success of the small force employed in the Mediterranean in the early part of the present year, the reenforcements sent into that sea, and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels will, I trust, by the sufferings of war, reduce the barbarians of Tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms. Great injury, however, ensues to ourselves, as well as to others interested, from the distance to which prizes must be brought for adjudication and from the impracticability of bringing hither such as are not sea worthy. The Bey of Tunis having made requisitions unauthorized by our treaty, their rejection has produced from him some expressions of discontent, but to those who expect us to calculate whether a compliance with unjust demands will not cost us less than a war we must leave as a question of calculation for them also whether to retire from unjust demands will not cost them less than a war. We can do to each other very sensible injuries by war, but the mutual advantages of peace make that the best interest of both. Peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty. In pursuance of the act providing for the temporary government of Louisiana, the necessary officers for the Territory of Orleans were appointed in due time to commence the exercise of their functions on the 1st day of October. The distance, however, of some of them and indispensable previous arrangements may have retarded its commencement in some of its parts. The form of government thus provided having considered but as temporary, and open to such future improvements as further information of the circumstances of our brethren there might suggest, it will of course be subject to your consideration. In the district of Louisiana it has been thought best to adopt the division into subordinate districts which had been established under its former government. These being 5 in number, a commanding officer has been appointed to each, according to the provisions of the law, and so soon as they can be at their stations that district will also be in its due state of organization. In the mean time, their places are supplied by the officers before commanding there, and the function of the governor and judges of Indiana having commenced, the government, we presume, is proceeding in its new form. The lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal as to merit attention. The report now communicated will inform you of their state and of the necessity of immediate inquiry into their occupation and titles. With the Indian tribes established within our newly acquired limits, I have deemed it necessary to open conferences for the purpose of establishing a good understanding and neighborly relations between us. So far as we have yet learned, we have reason to believe that their dispositions are generally favorable and friendly; and with these dispositions on their part, we have in our own hands means which can not fail us for preserving their peace and friendship. by pursuing an uniform course of justice toward them, by aiding them in all the improvements which may better their condition, and especially by establishing a commerce on terms which shall be advantageous to them and only not losing to us, and so regulated as that no incendiaries of our own or any other nation may be permitted to disturb the natural effects of our just and friendly offices, we may render ourselves so necessary to their comfort and prosperity that the protection of our citizens from their disorderly members will become their interest and their voluntary care. Instead, therefore, of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier, I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce as a more effectual, economical, and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighborhood with them. On this side of the Mississippi an important relinquishment of native title has been received from the Delawares. That tribe, desiring to extinguish in their people the spirit of hunting and to convert superfluous lands into the means of improving what they retain, has ceded to us all the country between the Wabash and Ohio south of and including the road from the rapids toward Vincennes, for which they are to receive annuities in animals and implements for agriculture and in other necessaries. This acquisition is important, not only for its extent and fertility, but as fronting 300 miles on the Ohio, and near half that on the Wabash. The produce of the settled country descending those rivers will no longer pass in review of the Indian frontier but in a small portion, and, with the cession heretofore made by the Kaskaskias, nearly consolidates our possessions north of the Ohio, in a very respectable breadth - from Lake Erie to the Mississippi. The Piankeshaws having some claim to the country ceded by the Delawares, it has been thought best to quiet that by fair purchase also. So soon as the treaties on this subject shall have received their constitutional sanctions they shall be laid before both houses. The act of Congress of 1803 February 28, for building and employing a number of gun boats, is now in a course of execution to the extent there provided for. The obstacle to naval enterprise which vessels of this construction offer for our sea port towns, their utility toward supporting within our waters the authority of the laws, the promptness with which they will be manned by the sea men and militia of the place in the moment they are wanting, the facility of their assembling from different parts of the coast to any point where they are required in greater force than ordinary, the economy of their maintenance and preservation from decay when not in actual service, and the competence of our finances to this defensive provision without any new burthen are considerations which will have due weight with Congress in deciding on the expediency of adding to their number from year to year, as experience shall test their utility, until all our important harbors, by these and auxiliary means, shall be secured against insult and opposition to the laws. No circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force. Should any improvement occur in the militia system, that will be always seasonable. Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will as usual be laid before you. The state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations. $11.5M, received in the course of the year ending the 30th of September last, have enabled us, after meeting all the ordinary expenses of the year, to pay upward of $3.6M of the public debt, exclusive of interest. This payment, with those of the two preceding years, has extinguished up ward of $12M of the principal and a greater sum of interest within that period, and by a proportionate diminution of interest renders already sensible the effect of the growing sum yearly applicable to the discharge of the principal. It is also ascertained that the revenue accrued during the last year exceeds that of the preceding, and the probably receipts of the ensuing year may safely be relied on as sufficient, with the sum already in the Treasury, to meet all the current demands of the year, to discharge upward of $3.5M of the engagements incurred under the British and French conventions, and to advance in the further redemption of the funded debt as rapidly as had been contemplated. These, fellow citizens, are the principal matters which I have thought it necessary at this time to communicate for you consideration and attention. Some others will be laid before you in the course of the session; but in the discharge of the great duties confided to you by our country you will take a broader view of the field of legislation. Whether the great interests of agriculture, manufactures, commerce, or navigation can within the pale of your constitutional powers be aided in any of their relations; whether laws are provided in all cases where they are wanting; whether those provided are exactly what they should be whether any abuses take place in their administration, or in that of the public revenues; whether the organization of the public agents or of the public force is perfect in all its parts; in fine, whether anything can be done to advance the general good, are questions within the limits of your functions which will necessarily occupy your attention. In these and all other matters which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country you may count with assurance on my hearty cooperation and faithful execution.
To a people, fellow citizens, who sincerely desire the happiness and prosperity of other nations; to those who justly calculate that their own well-being is advanced by that of the nations with which they have intercourse, it will be a satisfaction to observe that the war which was lighted up in Europe a little before our last meeting has not yet extended its flames to other nations, nor been marked by the calamities which sometimes stain the foot-steps of war. The irregularities, too, on the ocean, which generally harass the commerce of neutral nations, have, in distant parts, disturbed ours less than on former occasions; but in the American seas they have been greater from peculiar causes, and even within our harbors and jurisdiction infringements on the authority of the laws have been committed which have called for serious attention. The friendly conduct of the Governments from whose officers and subjects these acts have proceeded, in other respects and in places more under their observation and control, gives us confidence that our representations on this subject will have been properly regarded. While noticing the irregularities committed on the ocean by others, those on our own part should not be omitted nor left unprovided for. Complaints have been received that persons residing within the United States have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries in defiance of the laws of those countries. That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, can not be permitted in a well-ordered society. Its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious that I doubt not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future. Soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain. Candid explanations were immediately given and assurances that, reserving our claims in that quarter as a subject of discussion and arrangement with Spain, no act was meditated in the mean time inconsistent with the peace and friendship existing between the 2 nations, and that conformably to these intentions would be the execution of the law. That Government had, however, thought proper to suspend the ratification of the convention of 1802; but the explanations which would reach them soon after, and still more the confirmation of them by the tenor of the instrument establishing the port and district, may reasonably be expected to replace them in the dispositions and views of the whole subject which originally dictated the convention. I have the satisfaction to inform you that the objections which had been urged by that Government against the validity of our title to the country of Louisiana have been withdrawn, its exact limits, however, remaining still to be settled between us; and to this is to be added that, having prepared and delivered the stock created in execution of the convention of Paris of 1803 April 30, in consideration of the cession of that country, we have received from the Government of France an acknowledgment, in due form, of the fulfillment of that stipulation. With the nations of Europe in general our friendship and intercourse are undisturbed, and from the Governments of the belligerent powers especially we continue to receive those friendly manifestations which are justly due to an honest neutrality and to such good offices consistent with that as we have opportunities of rendering. The activity and success of the small force employed in the Mediterranean in the early part of the present year, the reenforcements sent into that sea, and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels will, I trust, by the sufferings of war, reduce the barbarians of Tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms. Great injury, however, ensues to ourselves, as well as to others interested, from the distance to which prizes must be brought for adjudication and from the impracticability of bringing hither such as are not sea worthy. The Bey of Tunis having made requisitions unauthorized by our treaty, their rejection has produced from him some expressions of discontent, but to those who expect us to calculate whether a compliance with unjust demands will not cost us less than a war we must leave as a question of calculation for them also whether to retire from unjust demands will not cost them less than a war. We can do to each other very sensible injuries by war, but the mutual advantages of peace make that the best interest of both. Peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty. In pursuance of the act providing for the temporary government of Louisiana, the necessary officers for the Territory of Orleans were appointed in due time to commence the exercise of their functions on the 1st day of October. The distance, however, of some of them and indispensable previous arrangements may have retarded its commencement in some of its parts. The form of government thus provided having considered but as temporary, and open to such future improvements as further information of the circumstances of our brethren there might suggest, it will of course be subject to your consideration. In the district of Louisiana it has been thought best to adopt the division into subordinate districts which had been established under its former government. These being 5 in number, a commanding officer has been appointed to each, according to the provisions of the law, and so soon as they can be at their stations that district will also be in its due state of organization. In the mean time, their places are supplied by the officers before commanding there, and the function of the governor and judges of Indiana having commenced, the government, we presume, is proceeding in its new form. The lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal as to merit attention. The report now communicated will inform you of their state and of the necessity of immediate inquiry into their occupation and titles. With the Indian tribes established within our newly acquired limits, I have deemed it necessary to open conferences for the purpose of establishing a good understanding and neighborly relations between us. So far as we have yet learned, we have reason to believe that their dispositions are generally favorable and friendly; and with these dispositions on their part, we have in our own hands means which can not fail us for preserving their peace and friendship. by pursuing an uniform course of justice toward them, by aiding them in all the improvements which may better their condition, and especially by establishing a commerce on terms which shall be advantageous to them and only not losing to us, and so regulated as that no incendiaries of our own or any other nation may be permitted to disturb the natural effects of our just and friendly offices, we may render ourselves so necessary to their comfort and prosperity that the protection of our citizens from their disorderly members will become their interest and their voluntary care. Instead, therefore, of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier, I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce as a more effectual, economical, and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighborhood with them. On this side of the Mississippi an important relinquishment of native title has been received from the Delawares. That tribe, desiring to extinguish in their people the spirit of hunting and to convert superfluous lands into the means of improving what they retain, has ceded to us all the country between the Wabash and Ohio south of and including the road from the rapids toward Vincennes, for which they are to receive annuities in animals and implements for agriculture and in other necessaries. This acquisition is important, not only for its extent and fertility, but as fronting 300 miles on the Ohio, and near half that on the Wabash. The produce of the settled country descending those rivers will no longer pass in review of the Indian frontier but in a small portion, and, with the cession heretofore made by the Kaskaskias, nearly consolidates our possessions north of the Ohio, in a very respectable breadth - from Lake Erie to the Mississippi. The Piankeshaws having some claim to the country ceded by the Delawares, it has been thought best to quiet that by fair purchase also. So soon as the treaties on this subject shall have received their constitutional sanctions they shall be laid before both houses. The act of Congress of 1803 February 28, for building and employing a number of gun boats, is now in a course of execution to the extent there provided for. The obstacle to naval enterprise which vessels of this construction offer for our sea port towns, their utility toward supporting within our waters the authority of the laws, the promptness with which they will be manned by the sea men and militia of the place in the moment they are wanting, the facility of their assembling from different parts of the coast to any point where they are required in greater force than ordinary, the economy of their maintenance and preservation from decay when not in actual service, and the competence of our finances to this defensive provision without any new burthen are considerations which will have due weight with Congress in deciding on the expediency of adding to their number from year to year, as experience shall test their utility, until all our important harbors, by these and auxiliary means, shall be secured against insult and opposition to the laws. No circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force. Should any improvement occur in the militia system, that will be always seasonable. Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will as usual be laid before you. The state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations. $11.5M, received in the course of the year ending the 30th of September last, have enabled us, after meeting all the ordinary expenses of the year, to pay upward of $3.6M of the public debt, exclusive of interest. This payment, with those of the two preceding years, has extinguished up ward of $12M of the principal and a greater sum of interest within that period, and by a proportionate diminution of interest renders already sensible the effect of the growing sum yearly applicable to the discharge of the principal. It is also ascertained that the revenue accrued during the last year exceeds that of the preceding, and the probably receipts of the ensuing year may safely be relied on as sufficient, with the sum already in the Treasury, to meet all the current demands of the year, to discharge upward of $3.5M of the engagements incurred under the British and French conventions, and to advance in the further redemption of the funded debt as rapidly as had been contemplated. These, fellow citizens, are the principal matters which I have thought it necessary at this time to communicate for you consideration and attention. Some others will be laid before you in the course of the session; but in the discharge of the great duties confided to you by our country you will take a broader view of the field of legislation. Whether the great interests of agriculture, manufactures, commerce, or navigation can within the pale of your constitutional powers be aided in any of their relations; whether laws are provided in all cases where they are wanting; whether those provided are exactly what they should be whether any abuses take place in their administration, or in that of the public revenues; whether the organization of the public agents or of the public force is perfect in all its parts; in fine, whether anything can be done to advance the general good, are questions within the limits of your functions which will necessarily occupy your attention. In these and all other matters which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country you may count with assurance on my hearty cooperation and faithful execution.
to a people fellow citizens who sincerely desire the happiness and prosperity of other nations to those who justly calculate that their own is advanced by that of the nations with which they have intercourse it will be a satisfaction to observe that the war which was lighted up in europe a little before our last meeting has not yet extended its flames to other nations nor been marked by the calamities which sometimes stain the of war the irregularities too on the ocean which generally harass the commerce of neutral nations have in distant parts disturbed ours less than on former occasions but in the american seas they have been greater from peculiar causes and even within our harbors and jurisdiction infringements on the authority of the laws have been committed which have called for serious attention the friendly conduct of the governments from whose officers and subjects these acts have proceeded in other respects and in places more under their observation and control gives us confidence that our representations on this subject will have been properly regarded while noticing the irregularities committed on the ocean by others those on our own part should not be omitted nor left unprovided for complaints have been received that persons residing within the united states have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries in defiance of the laws of those countries that individuals should undertake to wage private war independently of the authority of their country can not be permitted in a society its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious that i doubt not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of spain candid explanations were immediately given and assurances that reserving our claims in that quarter as a subject of discussion and arrangement with spain no act was meditated in the mean time inconsistent with the peace and friendship existing between the 2 nations and that conformably to these intentions would be the execution of the law that government had however thought proper to suspend the ratification of the convention of 1802 but the explanations which would reach them soon after and still more the confirmation of them by the tenor of the instrument establishing the port and district may reasonably be expected to replace them in the dispositions and views of the whole subject which originally dictated the convention i have the satisfaction to inform you that the objections which had been urged by that government against the validity of our title to the country of louisiana have been withdrawn its exact limits however remaining still to be settled between us and to this is to be added that having prepared and delivered the stock created in execution of the convention of paris of 1803 april 30 in consideration of the cession of that country we have received from the government of france an acknowledgment in due form of the fulfillment of that stipulation with the nations of europe in general our friendship and intercourse are undisturbed and from the governments of the belligerent powers especially we continue to receive those friendly manifestations which are justly due to an honest neutrality and to such good offices consistent with that as we have opportunities of rendering the activity and success of the small force employed in the mediterranean in the early part of the present year the reenforcements sent into that sea and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels will i trust by the sufferings of war reduce the barbarians of tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms great injury however ensues to ourselves as well as to others interested from the distance to which prizes must be brought for adjudication and from the impracticability of bringing hither such as are not sea worthy the bey of tunis having made requisitions unauthorized by our treaty their rejection has produced from him some expressions of discontent but to those who expect us to calculate whether a compliance with unjust demands will not cost us less than a war we must leave as a question of calculation for them also whether to retire from unjust demands will not cost them less than a war we can do to each other very sensible injuries by war but the mutual advantages of peace make that the best interest of both peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty in pursuance of the act providing for the temporary government of louisiana the necessary officers for the territory of orleans were appointed in due time to commence the exercise of their functions on the 1st day of october the distance however of some of them and indispensable previous arrangements may have retarded its commencement in some of its parts the form of government thus provided having considered but as temporary and open to such future improvements as further information of the circumstances of our brethren there might suggest it will of course be subject to your consideration in the district of louisiana it has been thought best to adopt the division into subordinate districts which had been established under its former government these being 5 in number a commanding officer has been appointed to each according to the provisions of the law and so soon as they can be at their stations that district will also be in its due state of organization in the mean time their places are supplied by the officers before commanding there and the function of the governor and judges of indiana having commenced the government we presume is proceeding in its new form the lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal as to merit attention the report now communicated will inform you of their state and of the necessity of immediate inquiry into their occupation and titles with the indian tribes established within our newly acquired limits i have deemed it necessary to open conferences for the purpose of establishing a good understanding and neighborly relations between us so far as we have yet learned we have reason to believe that their dispositions are generally favorable and friendly and with these dispositions on their part we have in our own hands means which can not fail us for preserving their peace and friendship by pursuing an uniform course of justice toward them by aiding them in all the improvements which may better their condition and especially by establishing a commerce on terms which shall be advantageous to them and only not losing to us and so regulated as that no incendiaries of our own or any other nation may be permitted to disturb the natural effects of our just and friendly offices we may render ourselves so necessary to their comfort and prosperity that the protection of our citizens from their disorderly members will become their interest and their voluntary care instead therefore of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier i propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce as a more effectual economical and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighborhood with them on this side of the mississippi an important relinquishment of native title has been received from the delawares that tribe desiring to extinguish in their people the spirit of hunting and to convert superfluous lands into the means of improving what they retain has ceded to us all the country between the wabash and ohio south of and including the road from the rapids toward vincennes for which they are to receive annuities in animals and implements for agriculture and in other necessaries this acquisition is important not only for its extent and fertility but as fronting 300 miles on the ohio and near half that on the wabash the produce of the settled country descending those rivers will no longer pass in review of the indian frontier but in a small portion and with the cession heretofore made by the kaskaskias nearly consolidates our possessions north of the ohio in a very respectable breadth from lake erie to the mississippi the piankeshaws having some claim to the country ceded by the delawares it has been thought best to quiet that by fair purchase also so soon as the treaties on this subject shall have received their constitutional sanctions they shall be laid before both houses the act of congress of 1803 february 28 for building and employing a number of gun boats is now in a course of execution to the extent there provided for the obstacle to naval enterprise which vessels of this construction offer for our sea port towns their utility toward supporting within our waters the authority of the laws the promptness with which they will be manned by the sea men and militia of the place in the moment they are wanting the facility of their assembling from different parts of the coast to any point where they are required in greater force than ordinary the economy of their maintenance and preservation from decay when not in actual service and the competence of our finances to this defensive provision without any new burthen are considerations which will have due weight with congress in deciding on the expediency of adding to their number from year to year as experience shall test their utility until all our important harbors by these and auxiliary means shall be secured against insult and opposition to the laws no circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force should any improvement occur in the militia system that will be always seasonable accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year with estimates for the ensuing one will as usual be laid before you the state of our finances continues to fulfill our expectations received in the course of the year ending the 30th of september last have enabled us after meeting all the ordinary expenses of the year to pay upward of of the public debt exclusive of interest this payment with those of the two preceding years has extinguished up ward of 12m of the principal and a greater sum of interest within that period and by a proportionate diminution of interest renders already sensible the effect of the growing sum yearly applicable to the discharge of the principal it is also ascertained that the revenue accrued during the last year exceeds that of the preceding and the probably receipts of the ensuing year may safely be relied on as sufficient with the sum already in the treasury to meet all the current demands of the year to discharge upward of of the engagements incurred under the british and french conventions and to advance in the further redemption of the funded debt as rapidly as had been contemplated these fellow citizens are the principal matters which i have thought it necessary at this time to communicate for you consideration and attention some others will be laid before you in the course of the session but in the discharge of the great duties confided to you by our country you will take a broader view of the field of legislation whether the great interests of agriculture manufactures commerce or navigation can within the pale of your constitutional powers be aided in any of their relations whether laws are provided in all cases where they are wanting whether those provided are exactly what they should be whether any abuses take place in their administration or in that of the public revenues whether the organization of the public agents or of the public force is perfect in all its parts in fine whether anything can be done to advance the general good are questions within the limits of your functions which will necessarily occupy your attention in these and all other matters which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country you may count with assurance on my hearty cooperation and faithful execution
people fellow citizens sincerely desire happiness prosperity nations justly calculate advanced nations intercourse satisfaction observe war lighted europe little last meeting yet extended flames nations marked calamities sometimes stain war irregularities ocean generally harass commerce neutral nations distant parts disturbed less former occasions american seas greater peculiar causes even within harbors jurisdiction infringements authority laws committed called serious attention friendly conduct governments whose officers subjects acts proceeded respects places observation control gives us confidence representations subject properly regarded noticing irregularities committed ocean others part omitted left unprovided complaints received persons residing within united states taken arm merchant vessels force commerce certain ports countries defiance laws countries individuals undertake wage private war independently authority country permitted society tendency produce aggression laws rights nations endanger peace obvious doubt adopt measures restraining effectually future soon passage act last session authorizing establishment district port entry waters mobile learnt object misunderstood part spain candid explanations immediately given assurances reserving claims quarter subject discussion arrangement spain act meditated mean time inconsistent peace friendship existing 2 nations conformably intentions would execution law government however thought proper suspend ratification convention 1802 explanations would reach soon still confirmation tenor instrument establishing port district may reasonably expected replace dispositions views whole subject originally dictated convention satisfaction inform objections urged government validity title country louisiana withdrawn exact limits however remaining still settled us added prepared delivered stock created execution convention paris 1803 april 30 consideration cession country received government france acknowledgment due form fulfillment stipulation nations europe general friendship intercourse undisturbed governments belligerent powers especially continue receive friendly manifestations justly due honest neutrality good offices consistent opportunities rendering activity success small force employed mediterranean early part present year reenforcements sent sea energy officers command several vessels trust sufferings war reduce barbarians tripoli desire peace proper terms great injury however ensues well others interested distance prizes must brought adjudication impracticability bringing hither sea worthy bey tunis made requisitions unauthorized treaty rejection produced expressions discontent expect us calculate whether compliance unjust demands cost us less war must leave question calculation also whether retire unjust demands cost less war sensible injuries war mutual advantages peace make best interest peace intercourse powers coast continue footing established treaty pursuance act providing temporary government louisiana necessary officers territory orleans appointed due time commence exercise functions 1st day october distance however indispensable previous arrangements may retarded commencement parts form government thus provided considered temporary open future improvements information circumstances brethren might suggest course subject consideration district louisiana thought best adopt division subordinate districts established former government 5 number commanding officer appointed according provisions law soon stations district also due state organization mean time places supplied officers commanding function governor judges indiana commenced government presume proceeding new form lead mines district offer rich supply metal merit attention report communicated inform state necessity immediate inquiry occupation titles indian tribes established within newly acquired limits deemed necessary open conferences purpose establishing good understanding neighborly relations us far yet learned reason believe dispositions generally favorable friendly dispositions part hands means fail us preserving peace friendship pursuing uniform course justice toward aiding improvements may better condition especially establishing commerce terms shall advantageous losing us regulated incendiaries nation may permitted disturb natural effects friendly offices may render necessary comfort prosperity protection citizens disorderly members become interest voluntary care instead therefore augmentation military force proportioned extension frontier propose moderate enlargement capital employed commerce effectual economical humane instrument preserving peace good neighborhood side mississippi important relinquishment native title received delawares tribe desiring extinguish people spirit hunting convert superfluous lands means improving retain ceded us country wabash ohio south including road rapids toward vincennes receive annuities animals implements agriculture necessaries acquisition important extent fertility fronting 300 miles ohio near half wabash produce settled country descending rivers longer pass review indian frontier small portion cession heretofore made kaskaskias nearly consolidates possessions north ohio respectable breadth lake erie mississippi piankeshaws claim country ceded delawares thought best quiet fair purchase also soon treaties subject shall received constitutional sanctions shall laid houses act congress 1803 february 28 building employing number gun boats course execution extent provided obstacle naval enterprise vessels construction offer sea port towns utility toward supporting within waters authority laws promptness manned sea men militia place moment wanting facility assembling different parts coast point required greater force ordinary economy maintenance preservation decay actual service competence finances defensive provision without new burthen considerations due weight congress deciding expediency adding number year year experience shall test utility important harbors auxiliary means shall secured insult opposition laws circumstance arisen since last session calls augmentation regular military force improvement occur militia system always seasonable accounts receipts expenditures last year estimates ensuing one usual laid state finances continues fulfill expectations received course year ending 30th september last enabled us meeting ordinary expenses year pay upward public debt exclusive interest payment two preceding years extinguished ward 12m principal greater sum interest within period proportionate diminution interest renders already sensible effect growing sum yearly applicable discharge principal also ascertained revenue accrued last year exceeds preceding probably receipts ensuing year may safely relied sufficient sum already treasury meet current demands year discharge upward engagements incurred british french conventions advance redemption funded debt rapidly contemplated fellow citizens principal matters thought necessary time communicate consideration attention others laid course session discharge great duties confided country take broader view field legislation whether great interests agriculture manufactures commerce navigation within pale constitutional powers aided relations whether laws provided cases wanting whether provided exactly whether abuses take place administration public revenues whether organization public agents public force perfect parts fine whether anything done advance general good questions within limits functions necessarily occupy attention matters wisdom may propose good country may count assurance hearty cooperation faithful execution
people fellow citizen sincerely desire happiness prosperity nation justly calculate advanced nation intercourse satisfaction observe war light europe little last meeting yet extend flame nation mark calamity sometimes stain war irregularity ocean generally harass commerce neutral nation distant part disturb less former occasion american sea great peculiar cause even within harbor jurisdiction infringement authority law commit call serious attention friendly conduct government whose officer subject act proceed respect place observation control give u confidence representation subject properly regard noticing irregularity commit ocean others part omit leave unprovided complaint receive person reside within united state take arm merchant vessel force commerce certain port country defiance law country individual undertake wage private war independently authority country permit society tendency produce aggression law right nation endanger peace obvious doubt adopt measure restrain effectually future soon passage act last session authorize establishment district port entry water mobile learnt object misunderstood part spain candid explanation immediately give assurance reserve claim quarter subject discussion arrangement spain act meditate mean time inconsistent peace friendship exist 2 nation conformably intention would execution law government however think proper suspend ratification convention 1802 explanation would reach soon still confirmation tenor instrument establish port district may reasonably expect replace disposition view whole subject originally dictate convention satisfaction inform objection urge government validity title country louisiana withdraw exact limit however remain still settle u add prepared delivered stock create execution convention paris 1803 april 30 consideration cession country receive government france acknowledgment due form fulfillment stipulation nation europe general friendship intercourse undisturbed government belligerent power especially continue receive friendly manifestation justly due honest neutrality good office consistent opportunity render activity success small force employ mediterranean early part present year reenforcement send sea energy officer command several vessel trust suffering war reduce barbarian tripoli desire peace proper term great injury however ensues well others interested distance prize must bring adjudication impracticability bring hither sea worthy bey tunis make requisition unauthorized treaty rejection produce expression discontent expect u calculate whether compliance unjust demand cost u less war must leave question calculation also whether retire unjust demand cost less war sensible injury war mutual advantage peace make best interest peace intercourse power coast continue foot establish treaty pursuance act provide temporary government louisiana necessary officer territory orleans appoint due time commence exercise function 1st day october distance however indispensable previous arrangement may retard commencement part form government thus provide consider temporary open future improvement information circumstance brother might suggest course subject consideration district louisiana think best adopt division subordinate district establish former government 5 number command officer appoint accord provision law soon station district also due state organization mean time place supply officer command function governor judge indiana commenced government presume proceed new form lead mine district offer rich supply metal merit attention report communicate inform state necessity immediate inquiry occupation title indian tribe establish within newly acquire limit deem necessary open conference purpose establish good understanding neighborly relation u far yet learn reason believe disposition generally favorable friendly disposition part hand mean fail u preserve peace friendship pursue uniform course justice toward aid improvement may better condition especially establish commerce term shall advantageous lose u regulated incendiary nation may permit disturb natural effect friendly office may render necessary comfort prosperity protection citizen disorderly member become interest voluntary care instead therefore augmentation military force proportion extension frontier propose moderate enlargement capital employ commerce effectual economical humane instrument preserve peace good neighborhood side mississippi important relinquishment native title receive delaware tribe desire extinguish people spirit hunt convert superfluous land mean improve retain cede u country wabash ohio south include road rapid toward vincennes receive annuity animal implement agriculture necessary acquisition important extent fertility front 300 mile ohio near half wabash produce settle country descend river longer pass review indian frontier small portion cession heretofore make kaskaskias nearly consolidates possession north ohio respectable breadth lake erie mississippi piankeshaws claim country cede delaware think best quiet fair purchase also soon treaty subject shall receive constitutional sanction shall lay house act congress 1803 february 28 building employ number gun boat course execution extent provide obstacle naval enterprise vessel construction offer sea port town utility toward support within water authority law promptness man sea men militia place moment want facility assemble different part coast point require great force ordinary economy maintenance preservation decay actual service competence finance defensive provision without new burthen consideration due weight congress decide expediency add number year year experience shall test utility important harbor auxiliary mean shall secure insult opposition law circumstance arise since last session call augmentation regular military force improvement occur militia system always seasonable account receipt expenditure last year estimate ensue one usual laid state finance continue fulfill expectation receive course year end 30th september last enable u meet ordinary expense year pay upward public debt exclusive interest payment two precede year extinguish ward 12m principal great sum interest within period proportionate diminution interest render already sensible effect grow sum yearly applicable discharge principal also ascertain revenue accrue last year exceed precede probably receipt ensue year may safely rely sufficient sum already treasury meet current demand year discharge upward engagement incur british french convention advance redemption fund debt rapidly contemplate fellow citizen principal matter think necessary time communicate consideration attention others lay course session discharge great duty confide country take broad view field legislation whether great interest agriculture manufacture commerce navigation within pale constitutional power aid relation whether law provide case want whether provide exactly whether abuse take place administration public revenues whether organization public agent public force perfect part fine whether anything do advance general good question within limit function necessarily occupy attention matter wisdom may propose good country may count assurance hearty cooperation faithful execution