With an almost unanimous victory in the Electoral College and a super majority in both the House and the Senate, President Monroe had a clear mandate to drive the Democratic Republican agenda for the next four years.
In his second term, President James Monroe was facing a new Congress, there were many new faces including the newly elected congressmen from recently admitted states of Maine and Missouri. In fact, the two Missouri senators Thomas H. Benton and David Baron were just elected in August of 1821. In addition, I found at least 9 members of the House who had just been added in the last few months of 1821 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_United_States_Congres). And if you can imagine, over 90% of the Senate and over 80% of the House shared the same political party as President Monroe. They were all Democratic Republicans. Meanwhile, President Monroe was 63 years old at the time, and had been involved in American politics since being a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation in 1783. He served in the Revolutionary war under George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton. He was a protege of Thomas Jefferson. Senator then Governor of Virginia, Ambassador to Great Britain and France, Secretary of State during the War of 1812, and now serving his second term in office after being elected by a nearly unanimous decision (231 out of 232) in the electoral college. I can only imagine how these young members of Congress looked up to President Monroe, it is no wonder that this time in political history was called the "Era of Good Feelings". Just a few years earlier, in 1817 former president James Madison wrote a letter to Monroe, describing this time as one where "there has never been a moment when such a proposition to the states was so likely to be approved". Madison was referring to a constitutional amendment to build roads and canals, but his words could be applied to almost anything that Monroe put his mind to.
So, in this light Monroe felt that it was important to layout "in as distinct and clear a light" as he could his thoughts on on every subject that required Congresses particular attention. He knew that he had eager and attentive audience, and now that the controversy of the Missouri Compromise was settled, President Monroe also had a clear mandate of his agenda, and it sounds like he planned to use it.
"In this annual communication, especially when it is addressed to a new Congress, the whole scope of our political concerns naturally comes into view, that errors, if such have been committed, may be corrected; that defects which have become manifest may be remedied; and, on the other hand, that measures which were adopted on due deliberation, and which experience has shewn are just in themselves and essential to the public welfare, should be persevered in and supported. In performing this necessary and very important duty I shall endeavor to place before you on its merits every subject that is thought to be entitled to your particular attention in as distinct and clear a light as I may be able."
https://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/party/democratic-republican-party/
Letters of and other Writings of James Madison volume 3 by J.B. Lippincott & Co. (1865) pg 50
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Good_Feelings#cite_note-22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_United_States_Congress
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