JAMES MADISON.
WASHINGTON, _October 10, 1814_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I lay before Congress communications just received from the
plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace
with Great Britain, showing the conditions on which alone that
Government is willing to put an end to the war.
The instructions to those plenipotentiaries, disclosing the grounds on
which they were authorized to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace,
will be the subject of another communication.
JAMES MADISON.
WASHINGTON, _October 13, 1814_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I now transmit to Congress copies of the instructions to the
plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating a peace
with Great Britain, as referred to in my message of the 10th instant.
JAMES MADISON.
DECEMBER 1, 1814.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_:
I transmit, for the information of Congress, the communications last
received from the ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the
United States at Ghent, explaining the course and actual state of their
negotiations with the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain.
JAMES MADISON.
FEBRUARY 15, 1815.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I have received from the American commissioners a treaty of peace and
amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America,
signed by those commissioners and by the commissioners of His Britannic
Majesty at Ghent on the 24th of December, 1814.
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