When we assemble together, fellow citizens, to consider the state of our beloved country, our just attentions are first drawn to those pleasing circumstances which mark the goodness of that Being from whose favor they flow and the large measure of thankfulness we owe for His bounty. Another year has come around, and finds us still blessed with peace and friendship abroad; law, order, and religion at home; good affection and harmony with our Indian neighbors; our burthens lightened, yet our income sufficient for the public wants, and the produce of the year great beyond example. These, fellow citizens, are the circumstances under which we meet, and we remark with special satisfaction those which under the smiles of Providence result from the skill, industry, and order of our citizens, managing their own affairs in their own way and for their own use, unembarrassed by too much regulation, unoppressed by fiscal exactions. On the restoration of peace in Europe that portion of the general carrying trade which had fallen to our share during the war was abridged by the returning competition of the belligerent powers. This was to be expected, and was just. But in addition we find in some parts of Europe monopolizing discriminations, which in the form of duties tend effectually to prohibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own vessels. From existing amities and a spirit of justice it is hoped that friendly discussion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity. but should false calculations of interest defeat our hope, it rests with the Legislature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or provide for the evil in any other way. It is with satisfaction I lay before you an act of the British Parliamant anticipating this subject so far as to authorize a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties permitted under the treaty of 1794. It shows on their part a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation which it is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. Whether this would produce a due equality in the navigation between the two countries is a subject for your consideration. Another circumstances which claims attention as directly affecting the very source of our navigation is the defect or the evasion of the law providing for the return of sea men, and particularly of those belonging to vessels sold abroad. Numbers of them, discharged in foreign ports, have been thrown on the hands of our consuls, who, to rescue them from the dangers into which their distresses might plunge them and save them to their country, have found it necessary in some cases to return them at the public charge. The cession of the Spanish Province of Louisiana to France, which took place in the course of the late war, will, if carried into effect, make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations which will doubtless have just weight in any deliberations of the Legislature connected with that subject. There was reason not long since to apprehend that the warfare in which we were engaged with Tripoli might be taken up by some other of the Barbary Powers. A reenforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the vessels already there. Subsequent information, however, has removed these apprehensions for the present. To secure our commerce in that sea with the smallest force competent, we have supposed it best to watch strictly the harbor of Tripoli. Still, however, the shallowness of their coast and the want of smaller vessels on our part has permitted some cruisers to escape unobserved, and to one of these an American vessel unfortunately fell prey. The captain, one American sea man, and two others of color remain prisoners with them unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the Bashaw, to whom, on the faith of that, some of his captive subjects had been restored. The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their legislature, and a repurchase from the Creeks has been consequently made of a part of the Talasscee country. In this purchase has been also comprehended a part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. The particulars of the contract will be laid before Congress so soon as they shall be in a state for communication. In order to remove every ground of difference possible with our Indian neighbors, I have proceeded in the work of settling with them and marking the boundaries between us. That with the Choctaw Nation is fixed in one part and will be through the whole within a short time. The country to which their title had been extinguished before the Revolution is sufficient to receive a very respectable population, which Congress will probably see the expediency of encouraging so soon as the limits shall be declared. We are to view this position as an outpost of the United States, surrounded by strong neighbors and distant from its support; and how far that monopoly which prevents population should here be guarded against and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title will be for your consideration. A prompt settlement, too, of all existing rights and claims within this territory presents itself as a preliminary operation. In that part of the Indiana Territory which includes Vincennes the lines settled with the neighboring tribes fix the extinction of their title at a breadth of 24 leagues from east to west and about the same length parallel with and including the Wabash. They have also ceded a tract of 4 miles square, including the salt springs near the mouth of that river. In the Department of Finance it is with pleasure I inform you, that the receipts of external duties for the last 12 months have exceeded those of any former year, and that the ration of increase has been also greater than usual. This has enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of Government, to pay from the Treasury within 1 year upward of $8M, principal and interest, of the public debt, exclusive of upward of $1M paid by the sale of bank stock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly $5.5M of principal, and to have now in the Treasury $4.5M which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt and current demands. Experience, too, so far, authorizes us to believe, if no extraordinary event supervenes, and the expenses which will be actually incurred shall not be greater than were contemplated by Congress at their last session, that we shall not be disappointed in the expectations then formed. But nevertheless, as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully ascertained, it is the more necessary to practice every useful economy and to incur no expense which may be avoided without prejudice. The collection of the internal taxes having been completed in some of the States, the officers employed in it are of course out of commission. In others they will be so shortly. But in a few, where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded, it will be some time before the system is closed. It has not yet been thought necessary to employ the agent authorized by an act of the last session for transacting business in Europe relative to debts and loans. Nor have we used the power confided by the same act of prolonging the foreign debt by reloans, and of redeeming instead thereof an equal sum of the domestic debt. Should, however, the difficulties of remittance on so large a scale render it necessary at any time, the power shall be executed and the money thus employed abroad shall, in conformity with that law, be faithfully applied here in an equivalent extinction of domestic debt. When effects so salutary result from the plans you have already sanctioned; when merely by avoiding false objects of expense we are able, without a direct tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing to make large and effectual payments toward the discharge of our public debt and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker, it is an encouragement, fellow citizens, of the highest order to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practiced by others under different circumstances. And when so ever we are destined to meet events which shall call forth all the energies of our country-men, we have the firmest reliance on those energies and the comfort of leaving for calls like these the extraordinary resources of loans and internal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we are liberating annually portions of the external taxes and forming from them a growing fund still further to lessen the necessity of recurring to extraordinary resources. The usual account of receipts and expenditures for the last year, with an estimate of the expenses of the ensuing one, will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury. No change being deemed necessary in our military establishment, an estimate of its expenses for the ensuing year on its present footing, as also of the sums to be employed in fortifications and other objects within that department, has been prepared by the Secretary of War, and will make a part of the general estimates which will be presented you. Considering that our regular troops are employed for local purposes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and sudden emergencies, you will doubtless think this institution worthy of a review, and give it those improvements of which you find it susceptible. Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy, for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates. A small force in the Mediterranean will still be necessary to restrain the Tripoline cruisers, and the uncertain tenure of peace with some other of the Barbary Powers may eventually require that force to be augmented. The necessity of procuring some smaller vessels for that service will raise the estimate, but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy. Presuming it will be deemed expedient to expend annually a convenient sum toward providing the naval defense which our situation may require, I can not but recommend that the first appropriations for that purpose may go to the saving what we already possess. No cares, no attentions, can preserve vessels from rapid decay which lie in water and exposed to the sun. These decays require great and constant repairs, and will consume, if continued, a great portion of the moneys destined to naval purposes. To avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our navy-yard here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun. Under these circumstances experience proves that works of wood will remain scarcely at all affected by time. The great abundance of running water which this situation possesses, at heights far above the level of the tide, if employed as is practiced for lock navigation, furnishes the means for raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed. And should the measure be found useful here, similar depositories for laying up as well as for building and repairing vessels may hereafter be undertaken at other navy-yards offering the same means. The plans and estimates of the work, prepared by a person of skill and experience, will be presented to you without delay, and from this it will be seen that scarcely more than has been the cost of 1 vessel is necessary to save the whole, and that the annual sum to be employed toward its completion may be adapted to the views of the Legislature as to naval expenditure. By continuing to make these the rule of our action we shall endear to our country-men the true principles of their Constitution and promote an union of sentiment and of action equally auspicious to their happiness and safety. On my part, you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good and on all the information I possess which may enable you to discharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country.
When we assemble together, fellow citizens, to consider the state of our beloved country, our just attentions are first drawn to those pleasing circumstances which mark the goodness of that Being from whose favor they flow and the large measure of thankfulness we owe for His bounty. Another year has come around, and finds us still blessed with peace and friendship abroad; law, order, and religion at home; good affection and harmony with our Indian neighbors; our burthens lightened, yet our income sufficient for the public wants, and the produce of the year great beyond example. These, fellow citizens, are the circumstances under which we meet, and we remark with special satisfaction those which under the smiles of Providence result from the skill, industry, and order of our citizens, managing their own affairs in their own way and for their own use, unembarrassed by too much regulation, unoppressed by fiscal exactions. On the restoration of peace in Europe that portion of the general carrying trade which had fallen to our share during the war was abridged by the returning competition of the belligerent powers. This was to be expected, and was just. But in addition we find in some parts of Europe monopolizing discriminations, which in the form of duties tend effectually to prohibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own vessels. From existing amities and a spirit of justice it is hoped that friendly discussion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity. but should false calculations of interest defeat our hope, it rests with the Legislature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or provide for the evil in any other way. It is with satisfaction I lay before you an act of the British Parliamant anticipating this subject so far as to authorize a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties permitted under the treaty of 1794. It shows on their part a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation which it is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. Whether this would produce a due equality in the navigation between the two countries is a subject for your consideration. Another circumstances which claims attention as directly affecting the very source of our navigation is the defect or the evasion of the law providing for the return of sea men, and particularly of those belonging to vessels sold abroad. Numbers of them, discharged in foreign ports, have been thrown on the hands of our consuls, who, to rescue them from the dangers into which their distresses might plunge them and save them to their country, have found it necessary in some cases to return them at the public charge. The cession of the Spanish Province of Louisiana to France, which took place in the course of the late war, will, if carried into effect, make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations which will doubtless have just weight in any deliberations of the Legislature connected with that subject. There was reason not long since to apprehend that the warfare in which we were engaged with Tripoli might be taken up by some other of the Barbary Powers. A reenforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the vessels already there. Subsequent information, however, has removed these apprehensions for the present. To secure our commerce in that sea with the smallest force competent, we have supposed it best to watch strictly the harbor of Tripoli. Still, however, the shallowness of their coast and the want of smaller vessels on our part has permitted some cruisers to escape unobserved, and to one of these an American vessel unfortunately fell prey. The captain, one American sea man, and two others of color remain prisoners with them unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the Bashaw, to whom, on the faith of that, some of his captive subjects had been restored. The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their legislature, and a repurchase from the Creeks has been consequently made of a part of the Talasscee country. In this purchase has been also comprehended a part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. The particulars of the contract will be laid before Congress so soon as they shall be in a state for communication. In order to remove every ground of difference possible with our Indian neighbors, I have proceeded in the work of settling with them and marking the boundaries between us. That with the Choctaw Nation is fixed in one part and will be through the whole within a short time. The country to which their title had been extinguished before the Revolution is sufficient to receive a very respectable population, which Congress will probably see the expediency of encouraging so soon as the limits shall be declared. We are to view this position as an outpost of the United States, surrounded by strong neighbors and distant from its support; and how far that monopoly which prevents population should here be guarded against and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title will be for your consideration. A prompt settlement, too, of all existing rights and claims within this territory presents itself as a preliminary operation. In that part of the Indiana Territory which includes Vincennes the lines settled with the neighboring tribes fix the extinction of their title at a breadth of 24 leagues from east to west and about the same length parallel with and including the Wabash. They have also ceded a tract of 4 miles square, including the salt springs near the mouth of that river. In the Department of Finance it is with pleasure I inform you, that the receipts of external duties for the last 12 months have exceeded those of any former year, and that the ration of increase has been also greater than usual. This has enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of Government, to pay from the Treasury within 1 year upward of $8M, principal and interest, of the public debt, exclusive of upward of $1M paid by the sale of bank stock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly $5.5M of principal, and to have now in the Treasury $4.5M which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt and current demands. Experience, too, so far, authorizes us to believe, if no extraordinary event supervenes, and the expenses which will be actually incurred shall not be greater than were contemplated by Congress at their last session, that we shall not be disappointed in the expectations then formed. But nevertheless, as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully ascertained, it is the more necessary to practice every useful economy and to incur no expense which may be avoided without prejudice. The collection of the internal taxes having been completed in some of the States, the officers employed in it are of course out of commission. In others they will be so shortly. But in a few, where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded, it will be some time before the system is closed. It has not yet been thought necessary to employ the agent authorized by an act of the last session for transacting business in Europe relative to debts and loans. Nor have we used the power confided by the same act of prolonging the foreign debt by reloans, and of redeeming instead thereof an equal sum of the domestic debt. Should, however, the difficulties of remittance on so large a scale render it necessary at any time, the power shall be executed and the money thus employed abroad shall, in conformity with that law, be faithfully applied here in an equivalent extinction of domestic debt. When effects so salutary result from the plans you have already sanctioned; when merely by avoiding false objects of expense we are able, without a direct tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing to make large and effectual payments toward the discharge of our public debt and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker, it is an encouragement, fellow citizens, of the highest order to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practiced by others under different circumstances. And when so ever we are destined to meet events which shall call forth all the energies of our country-men, we have the firmest reliance on those energies and the comfort of leaving for calls like these the extraordinary resources of loans and internal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we are liberating annually portions of the external taxes and forming from them a growing fund still further to lessen the necessity of recurring to extraordinary resources. The usual account of receipts and expenditures for the last year, with an estimate of the expenses of the ensuing one, will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury. No change being deemed necessary in our military establishment, an estimate of its expenses for the ensuing year on its present footing, as also of the sums to be employed in fortifications and other objects within that department, has been prepared by the Secretary of War, and will make a part of the general estimates which will be presented you. Considering that our regular troops are employed for local purposes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and sudden emergencies, you will doubtless think this institution worthy of a review, and give it those improvements of which you find it susceptible. Estimates for the Naval Department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy, for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates. A small force in the Mediterranean will still be necessary to restrain the Tripoline cruisers, and the uncertain tenure of peace with some other of the Barbary Powers may eventually require that force to be augmented. The necessity of procuring some smaller vessels for that service will raise the estimate, but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy. Presuming it will be deemed expedient to expend annually a convenient sum toward providing the naval defense which our situation may require, I can not but recommend that the first appropriations for that purpose may go to the saving what we already possess. No cares, no attentions, can preserve vessels from rapid decay which lie in water and exposed to the sun. These decays require great and constant repairs, and will consume, if continued, a great portion of the moneys destined to naval purposes. To avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our navy-yard here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun. Under these circumstances experience proves that works of wood will remain scarcely at all affected by time. The great abundance of running water which this situation possesses, at heights far above the level of the tide, if employed as is practiced for lock navigation, furnishes the means for raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed. And should the measure be found useful here, similar depositories for laying up as well as for building and repairing vessels may hereafter be undertaken at other navy-yards offering the same means. The plans and estimates of the work, prepared by a person of skill and experience, will be presented to you without delay, and from this it will be seen that scarcely more than has been the cost of 1 vessel is necessary to save the whole, and that the annual sum to be employed toward its completion may be adapted to the views of the Legislature as to naval expenditure. By continuing to make these the rule of our action we shall endear to our country-men the true principles of their Constitution and promote an union of sentiment and of action equally auspicious to their happiness and safety. On my part, you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good and on all the information I possess which may enable you to discharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country.
when we assemble together fellow citizens to consider the state of our beloved country our just attentions are first drawn to those pleasing circumstances which mark the goodness of that being from whose favor they flow and the large measure of thankfulness we owe for his bounty another year has come around and finds us still blessed with peace and friendship abroad law order and religion at home good affection and harmony with our indian neighbors our burthens lightened yet our income sufficient for the public wants and the produce of the year great beyond example these fellow citizens are the circumstances under which we meet and we remark with special satisfaction those which under the smiles of providence result from the skill industry and order of our citizens managing their own affairs in their own way and for their own use unembarrassed by too much regulation unoppressed by fiscal exactions on the restoration of peace in europe that portion of the general carrying trade which had fallen to our share during the war was abridged by the returning competition of the belligerent powers this was to be expected and was just but in addition we find in some parts of europe monopolizing discriminations which in the form of duties tend effectually to prohibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own vessels from existing amities and a spirit of justice it is hoped that friendly discussion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity but should false calculations of interest defeat our hope it rests with the legislature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home or provide for the evil in any other way it is with satisfaction i lay before you an act of the british parliamant anticipating this subject so far as to authorize a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties permitted under the treaty of 1794 it shows on their part a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation which it is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations whether this would produce a due equality in the navigation between the two countries is a subject for your consideration another circumstances which claims attention as directly affecting the very source of our navigation is the defect or the evasion of the law providing for the return of sea men and particularly of those belonging to vessels sold abroad numbers of them discharged in foreign ports have been thrown on the hands of our consuls who to rescue them from the dangers into which their distresses might plunge them and save them to their country have found it necessary in some cases to return them at the public charge the cession of the spanish province of louisiana to france which took place in the course of the late war will if carried into effect make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations which will doubtless have just weight in any deliberations of the legislature connected with that subject there was reason not long since to apprehend that the warfare in which we were engaged with tripoli might be taken up by some other of the barbary powers a reenforcement therefore was immediately ordered to the vessels already there subsequent information however has removed these apprehensions for the present to secure our commerce in that sea with the smallest force competent we have supposed it best to watch strictly the harbor of tripoli still however the shallowness of their coast and the want of smaller vessels on our part has permitted some cruisers to escape unobserved and to one of these an american vessel unfortunately fell prey the captain one american sea man and two others of color remain prisoners with them unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the bashaw to whom on the faith of that some of his captive subjects had been restored the convention with the state of georgia has been ratified by their legislature and a repurchase from the creeks has been consequently made of a part of the talasscee country in this purchase has been also comprehended a part of the lands within the fork of oconee and oakmulgee rivers the particulars of the contract will be laid before congress so soon as they shall be in a state for communication in order to remove every ground of difference possible with our indian neighbors i have proceeded in the work of settling with them and marking the boundaries between us that with the choctaw nation is fixed in one part and will be through the whole within a short time the country to which their title had been extinguished before the revolution is sufficient to receive a very respectable population which congress will probably see the expediency of encouraging so soon as the limits shall be declared we are to view this position as an outpost of the united states surrounded by strong neighbors and distant from its support and how far that monopoly which prevents population should here be guarded against and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title will be for your consideration a prompt settlement too of all existing rights and claims within this territory presents itself as a preliminary operation in that part of the indiana territory which includes vincennes the lines settled with the neighboring tribes fix the extinction of their title at a breadth of 24 leagues from east to west and about the same length parallel with and including the wabash they have also ceded a tract of 4 miles square including the salt springs near the mouth of that river in the department of finance it is with pleasure i inform you that the receipts of external duties for the last 12 months have exceeded those of any former year and that the ration of increase has been also greater than usual this has enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of government to pay from the treasury within 1 year upward of 8m principal and interest of the public debt exclusive of upward of 1m paid by the sale of bank stock and making in the whole a reduction of nearly of principal and to have now in the treasury which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt and current demands experience too so far authorizes us to believe if no extraordinary event supervenes and the expenses which will be actually incurred shall not be greater than were contemplated by congress at their last session that we shall not be disappointed in the expectations then formed but nevertheless as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully ascertained it is the more necessary to practice every useful economy and to incur no expense which may be avoided without prejudice the collection of the internal taxes having been completed in some of the states the officers employed in it are of course out of commission in others they will be so shortly but in a few where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded it will be some time before the system is closed it has not yet been thought necessary to employ the agent authorized by an act of the last session for transacting business in europe relative to debts and loans nor have we used the power confided by the same act of prolonging the foreign debt by reloans and of redeeming instead thereof an equal sum of the domestic debt should however the difficulties of remittance on so large a scale render it necessary at any time the power shall be executed and the money thus employed abroad shall in conformity with that law be faithfully applied here in an equivalent extinction of domestic debt when effects so salutary result from the plans you have already sanctioned when merely by avoiding false objects of expense we are able without a direct tax without internal taxes and without borrowing to make large and effectual payments toward the discharge of our public debt and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker it is an encouragement fellow citizens of the highest order to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are rather than what is practiced by others under different circumstances and when so ever we are destined to meet events which shall call forth all the energies of our we have the firmest reliance on those energies and the comfort of leaving for calls like these the extraordinary resources of loans and internal taxes in the mean time by payments of the principal of our debt we are liberating annually portions of the external taxes and forming from them a growing fund still further to lessen the necessity of recurring to extraordinary resources the usual account of receipts and expenditures for the last year with an estimate of the expenses of the ensuing one will be laid before you by the secretary of the treasury no change being deemed necessary in our military establishment an estimate of its expenses for the ensuing year on its present footing as also of the sums to be employed in fortifications and other objects within that department has been prepared by the secretary of war and will make a part of the general estimates which will be presented you considering that our regular troops are employed for local purposes and that the militia is our general reliance for great and sudden emergencies you will doubtless think this institution worthy of a review and give it those improvements of which you find it susceptible estimates for the naval department prepared by the secretary of the navy for another year will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates a small force in the mediterranean will still be necessary to restrain the tripoline cruisers and the uncertain tenure of peace with some other of the barbary powers may eventually require that force to be augmented the necessity of procuring some smaller vessels for that service will raise the estimate but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy presuming it will be deemed expedient to expend annually a convenient sum toward providing the naval defense which our situation may require i can not but recommend that the first appropriations for that purpose may go to the saving what we already possess no cares no attentions can preserve vessels from rapid decay which lie in water and exposed to the sun these decays require great and constant repairs and will consume if continued a great portion of the moneys destined to naval purposes to avoid this waste of our resources it is proposed to add to our here a dock within which our present vessels may be laid up dry and under cover from the sun under these circumstances experience proves that works of wood will remain scarcely at all affected by time the great abundance of running water which this situation possesses at heights far above the level of the tide if employed as is practiced for lock navigation furnishes the means for raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed and should the measure be found useful here similar depositories for laying up as well as for building and repairing vessels may hereafter be undertaken at other offering the same means the plans and estimates of the work prepared by a person of skill and experience will be presented to you without delay and from this it will be seen that scarcely more than has been the cost of 1 vessel is necessary to save the whole and that the annual sum to be employed toward its completion may be adapted to the views of the legislature as to naval expenditure by continuing to make these the rule of our action we shall endear to our the true principles of their constitution and promote an union of sentiment and of action equally auspicious to their happiness and safety on my part you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good and on all the information i possess which may enable you to discharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country
assemble together fellow citizens consider state beloved country attentions first drawn pleasing circumstances mark goodness whose favor flow large measure thankfulness owe bounty another year come around finds us still blessed peace friendship abroad law order religion home good affection harmony indian neighbors burthens lightened yet income sufficient public wants produce year great beyond example fellow citizens circumstances meet remark special satisfaction smiles providence result skill industry order citizens managing affairs way use unembarrassed much regulation unoppressed fiscal exactions restoration peace europe portion general carrying trade fallen share war abridged returning competition belligerent powers expected addition find parts europe monopolizing discriminations form duties tend effectually prohibit carrying thither produce vessels existing amities spirit justice hoped friendly discussion produce fair adequate reciprocity false calculations interest defeat hope rests legislature decide whether meet inequalities abroad countervailing inequalities home provide evil way satisfaction lay act british parliamant anticipating subject far authorize mutual abolition duties countervailing duties permitted treaty 1794 shows part spirit justice friendly accommodation duty interest cultivate nations whether would produce due equality navigation two countries subject consideration another circumstances claims attention directly affecting source navigation defect evasion law providing return sea men particularly belonging vessels sold abroad numbers discharged foreign ports thrown hands consuls rescue dangers distresses might plunge save country found necessary cases return public charge cession spanish province louisiana france took place course late war carried effect make change aspect foreign relations doubtless weight deliberations legislature connected subject reason long since apprehend warfare engaged tripoli might taken barbary powers reenforcement therefore immediately ordered vessels already subsequent information however removed apprehensions present secure commerce sea smallest force competent supposed best watch strictly harbor tripoli still however shallowness coast want smaller vessels part permitted cruisers escape unobserved one american vessel unfortunately fell prey captain one american sea man two others color remain prisoners unless exchanged agreement formerly made bashaw faith captive subjects restored convention state georgia ratified legislature repurchase creeks consequently made part talasscee country purchase also comprehended part lands within fork oconee oakmulgee rivers particulars contract laid congress soon shall state communication order remove every ground difference possible indian neighbors proceeded work settling marking boundaries us choctaw nation fixed one part whole within short time country title extinguished revolution sufficient receive respectable population congress probably see expediency encouraging soon limits shall declared view position outpost united states surrounded strong neighbors distant support far monopoly prevents population guarded actual habitation made condition continuance title consideration prompt settlement existing rights claims within territory presents preliminary operation part indiana territory includes vincennes lines settled neighboring tribes fix extinction title breadth 24 leagues east west length parallel including wabash also ceded tract 4 miles square including salt springs near mouth river department finance pleasure inform receipts external duties last 12 months exceeded former year ration increase also greater usual enabled us answer regular exigencies government pay treasury within 1 year upward 8m principal interest public debt exclusive upward 1m paid sale bank stock making whole reduction nearly principal treasury course application discharge debt current demands experience far authorizes us believe extraordinary event supervenes expenses actually incurred shall greater contemplated congress last session shall disappointed expectations formed nevertheless effect peace amount duties yet fully ascertained necessary practice every useful economy incur expense may avoided without prejudice collection internal taxes completed states officers employed course commission others shortly arrangements direct tax retarded time system closed yet thought necessary employ agent authorized act last session transacting business europe relative debts loans used power confided act prolonging foreign debt reloans redeeming instead thereof equal sum domestic debt however difficulties remittance large scale render necessary time power shall executed money thus employed abroad shall conformity law faithfully applied equivalent extinction domestic debt effects salutary result plans already sanctioned merely avoiding false objects expense able without direct tax without internal taxes without borrowing make large effectual payments toward discharge public debt emancipation posterity mortal canker encouragement fellow citizens highest order proceed begun substituting economy taxation pursuing useful nation placed rather practiced others different circumstances ever destined meet events shall call forth energies firmest reliance energies comfort leaving calls like extraordinary resources loans internal taxes mean time payments principal debt liberating annually portions external taxes forming growing fund still lessen necessity recurring extraordinary resources usual account receipts expenditures last year estimate expenses ensuing one laid secretary treasury change deemed necessary military establishment estimate expenses ensuing year present footing also sums employed fortifications objects within department prepared secretary war make part general estimates presented considering regular troops employed local purposes militia general reliance great sudden emergencies doubtless think institution worthy review give improvements find susceptible estimates naval department prepared secretary navy another year like manner communicated general estimates small force mediterranean still necessary restrain tripoline cruisers uncertain tenure peace barbary powers may eventually require force augmented necessity procuring smaller vessels service raise estimate difference maintenance soon make measure economy presuming deemed expedient expend annually convenient sum toward providing naval defense situation may require recommend first appropriations purpose may go saving already possess cares attentions preserve vessels rapid decay lie water exposed sun decays require great constant repairs consume continued great portion moneys destined naval purposes avoid waste resources proposed add dock within present vessels may laid dry cover sun circumstances experience proves works wood remain scarcely affected time great abundance running water situation possesses heights far level tide employed practiced lock navigation furnishes means raising laying vessels dry sheltered bed measure found useful similar depositories laying well building repairing vessels may hereafter undertaken offering means plans estimates work prepared person skill experience presented without delay seen scarcely cost 1 vessel necessary save whole annual sum employed toward completion may adapted views legislature naval expenditure continuing make rule action shall endear true principles constitution promote union sentiment action equally auspicious happiness safety part may count cordial concurrence every measure public good information possess may enable discharge advantage high functions invested country
assemble together fellow citizen consider state beloved country attention first draw pleasing circumstance mark goodness whose favor flow large measure thankfulness owe bounty another year come around find u still bless peace friendship abroad law order religion home good affection harmony indian neighbor burthen lighten yet income sufficient public want produce year great beyond example fellow citizen circumstance meet remark special satisfaction smile providence result skill industry order citizen manage affair way use unembarrassed much regulation unoppressed fiscal exaction restoration peace europe portion general carry trade fall share war abridge return competition belligerent power expect addition find part europe monopolize discrimination form duty tend effectually prohibit carry thither produce vessel exist amity spirit justice hop friendly discussion produce fair adequate reciprocity false calculation interest defeat hope rest legislature decide whether meet inequality abroad countervail inequality home provide evil way satisfaction lay act british parliamant anticipate subject far authorize mutual abolition duty countervail duty permit treaty 1794 show part spirit justice friendly accommodation duty interest cultivate nation whether would produce due equality navigation two country subject consideration another circumstance claim attention directly affect source navigation defect evasion law provide return sea men particularly belong vessel sell abroad number discharge foreign port thrown hand consuls rescue danger distress might plunge save country find necessary case return public charge cession spanish province louisiana france take place course late war carry effect make change aspect foreign relation doubtless weight deliberation legislature connect subject reason long since apprehend warfare engage tripoli might take barbary power reenforcement therefore immediately ordered vessel already subsequent information however remove apprehension present secure commerce sea small force competent suppose best watch strictly harbor tripoli still however shallowness coast want small vessel part permit cruiser escape unobserved one american vessel unfortunately fell prey captain one american sea man two others color remain prisoner unless exchange agreement formerly make bashaw faith captive subject restore convention state georgia ratify legislature repurchase creek consequently make part talasscee country purchase also comprehend part land within fork oconee oakmulgee river particular contract laid congress soon shall state communication order remove every ground difference possible indian neighbor proceed work settle mark boundary u choctaw nation fix one part whole within short time country title extinguished revolution sufficient receive respectable population congress probably see expediency encourage soon limit shall declare view position outpost united state surround strong neighbor distant support far monopoly prevents population guard actual habitation make condition continuance title consideration prompt settlement exist right claim within territory present preliminary operation part indiana territory include vincennes line settle neighbor tribe fix extinction title breadth 24 league east west length parallel include wabash also cede tract 4 mile square include salt spring near mouth river department finance pleasure inform receipt external duty last 12 month exceed former year ration increase also great usual enable u answer regular exigency government pay treasury within 1 year upward 8m principal interest public debt exclusive upward 1m pay sale bank stock make whole reduction nearly principal treasury course application discharge debt current demand experience far authorize u believe extraordinary event supervenes expense actually incur shall great contemplate congress last session shall disappointed expectation form nevertheless effect peace amount duty yet fully ascertain necessary practice every useful economy incur expense may avoid without prejudice collection internal tax complete state officer employ course commission others shortly arrangement direct tax retard time system close yet think necessary employ agent authorize act last session transact business europe relative debt loan use power confide act prolong foreign debt reloans redeem instead thereof equal sum domestic debt however difficulty remittance large scale render necessary time power shall execute money thus employ abroad shall conformity law faithfully apply equivalent extinction domestic debt effect salutary result plan already sanction merely avoid false object expense able without direct tax without internal tax without borrow make large effectual payment toward discharge public debt emancipation posterity mortal canker encouragement fellow citizen high order proceed begin substitute economy taxation pursue useful nation place rather practiced others different circumstance ever destine meet event shall call forth energy firmest reliance energy comfort leave call like extraordinary resource loan internal tax mean time payment principal debt liberate annually portion external tax form grow fund still lessen necessity recur extraordinary resource usual account receipt expenditure last year estimate expense ensue one laid secretary treasury change deem necessary military establishment estimate expense ensue year present footing also sum employed fortification object within department prepare secretary war make part general estimate present consider regular troop employ local purpose militia general reliance great sudden emergency doubtless think institution worthy review give improvement find susceptible estimate naval department prepare secretary navy another year like manner communicate general estimate small force mediterranean still necessary restrain tripoline cruiser uncertain tenure peace barbary power may eventually require force augmented necessity procure small vessel service raise estimate difference maintenance soon make measure economy presume deemed expedient expend annually convenient sum toward provide naval defense situation may require recommend first appropriation purpose may go save already possess care attention preserve vessel rapid decay lie water expose sun decay require great constant repair consume continue great portion money destine naval purpose avoid waste resource propose add dock within present vessel may lay dry cover sun circumstance experience prove work wood remain scarcely affected time great abundance run water situation possess height far level tide employ practiced lock navigation furnishes mean raise lay vessel dry shelter bed measure find useful similar depository lay well build repair vessel may hereafter undertaken offering mean plan estimate work prepared person skill experience present without delay see scarcely cost 1 vessel necessary save whole annual sum employ toward completion may adapt view legislature naval expenditure continue make rule action shall endear true principle constitution promote union sentiment action equally auspicious happiness safety part may count cordial concurrence every measure public good information possess may enable discharge advantage high function invest country