A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 1, part 3: Thomas Jefferson by Unknown
page 51 of 261 (19%)
page 51 of 261 (19%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
_Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_: I now transmit a report from the Secretary of State with the information requested in your resolution of the 17th instant. In making this communication I deem it proper to observe that I was led by the regard due to the rights and interests of the United States and to the just sensibility of the portion of our fellow-citizens more immediately affected by the irregular proceeding at New Orleans to lose not a moment in causing every step to be taken which the occasion claimed from me, being equally aware of the obligation to maintain in all cases the rights of the nation and to employ for that purpose those just and honorable means which belong to the character of the United States. TH. JEFFERSON. DECEMBER 23, 1802. _Gentlemen of the House of Representatives_. In pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d of May last, desiring a statement of expenditures from January 1, 1797, by the Quartermaster-General and the navy agents, for the contingencies of the naval and military establishments and the navy contracts for timber and stores, I now transmit such statements from the offices of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, and Navy, where alone these |
|