April 8:  “An Act For the admission of the State of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state” signed into law by James Madison.–National Intelligencer, April 11, 1812 April 9:  …

April 1:  “To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.  Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and prospects, that a general Embargo be laid on all vessels now in port, or hereafter arriving for the period …

March 26: Earthquake at Laguira and Caracas. “Robert K. Lowry, Esq. writes from Laguira, under date of 3d instant, and mentions the confusion and dismay as indescribable; following the destruction by earthquake is a terrible scene of robbery.”–American Daily Advertiser, …

March 18: In the House of Representatives — “On a motion of Mr. Dowson, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Bassett in the chair, on the bill for the admission of the state of Louisiana …

March 8: From Fort Madison — “A very friendly chief of the Sac nation told Mr. J. and myself, that unless we were reinforced within a short time, we should be massacred without discrimination! and that there were five nations …