The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic.

The precautions which will be recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury to protect faithfully the public credit under the fluctuations and contingencies to which our receipts and expenditures are exposed, are commended to your early…

It is indispensable that its finances should be untrammeled and its resources as far as practicable unencumbered.

I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasury might withdraw a large portion of it…

The present condition of the defenses of our principal seaports and navy-yards calls for the early and serious attention of Congress

I regret that I can not on this occasion congratulate you that the past year has been one of unalloyed prosperity.

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.

and withdrawing the nomination of Commander William D. Salter

I nominate him to be a captain in the Navy from the 8th of December, 1838

I have received the resolution of the Senate of this day, upon the subject of a communication made to you by the Postmaster-General on the 27th ultimo, and have the satisfaction of laying before the Senate the accompanying letter from that…

I recommend the subject for your favorable consideration.

In further compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th of January last, I communicate a report from the Secretary of War, which, with its inclosures, contains additional information called for by said…

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 26th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with the document therein referred to.

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, on the subject of the blockades of the Mexican coast and of the Rio de la Plata.

I transmit a report from the War Department in relation to the investigations had by the commissioners under the resolution of 1st July, 1836, on the sales of reservations of deceased Creek Indians.

But between an effort on the part of Maine to preserve the property in dispute from destruction by intruders and a military occupation by that State of the territory with a view to hold it by force while the settlement is a subject of…

The State of Maine had a right to arrest the depredations complained of.

I can not allow myself to doubt that the results anticipated from these representations will be seasonably realized.