This Union must be preserved.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas.

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of…

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above mentioned, with the documentary evidence referred to therein and a copy hereof, to be transmitted to Major-General…

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton and Stokes, with a review of that report by the Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom, under a law of the last session of…

For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.

I transmit herewith a copy of the instructions, prepared under my direction by the War Department, for the commissioners appointed by me, in pursuance of the request contained in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on…

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, embracing a copy of the correspondence requested by the resolution of the 7th instant, and such additional documents as were deemed necessary…

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a letter addressed to me on the 30th ultimo by the governor of the State of New Hampshire, communicating several resolutions of the legislature of that Commonwealth and claiming the…