Annual Message to Congress (1800)
President’s Speech, 6th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, H724. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=010/llac010.db&recNum=359 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Immediately after the adjournment of Congress at their last […]
Annual Message to Congress (1799)
President’s Speech, 6th Cong., 1st sess., Annals of Congress, H188. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=010/llac010.db&recNum=91 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: It is with peculiar satisfaction that I meet the […]
Annual Message to Congress (1798)
President’s Speech, 5th Cong., 3rd sess., Annals of Congress, H2420. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=009/llac009.db&recNum=3 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: While with reverence and resignation we contemplate the dispensations […]
Annual Message to Congress (1797)
President’s Speech, 5th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, H630. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=007/llac007.db&recNum=310 Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I was for some time apprehensive that it […]
Inaugural Address (1797)
John Adams, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200429 WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for […]
Letter from John Adams to the Earl of Claredon, William Pym (1766)
Sir, — You are pleased to charge the colonists with ignorance of the British constitution; but let me tell you there is not ever a son of liberty among them […]
Letter from John Adams to To H. Niles (1818)
The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to […]
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams (1777)
York Town Pennsylvania, Septr. 30. 1777 Tuesday My best Friend It is now a long Time, since I had an Opportunity of writing to you, and I fear you have […]
A Defense of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America
Marchamont Nedham lays it down as a fundamental principle and an undeniable rule, “That the people, (that is, such as shall be successively chosen to represent the people,) are the […]
Novanglus
Our rhetorical magician in his paper of January the 9th continues to wheedle: You want nothing but “to know the true state of facts, to rectify whatever is amiss.” He […]