The four annual messages John Adams delivered to Congress as the second President, from 1797 to 1800. He speaks of the yellow fever that nearly drove Congress out of Philadelphia, the settlement of the St. Croix boundary with Britain, naval defence and the strained relations with France, and finally of the government’s move to the new city of Washington.
Primary sources from the first years of the republic, for students of early American politics. Download the free EPUB.