In compliance with the resolution of the Senate at its last session, requesting the President to cause to be prepared and laid before the Senate at the commencement of its next session a plan for equalizing the pay of the officers in the…

I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, with the reasons on which my dissent is founded.

These ancient compacts are invaluable monuments of an age of virtue, patriotism, and disinterestedness.

They exhibit the price that great States which had won liberty were willing to pay for that union without which they plainly saw it could not be preserved.

I am fully sensible of the importance, as it respects both the harmony and union of the States, of making, as soon as circumstances will allow of it, a proper and final disposition of the whole subject of the public lands.

The operations of the Navy during the year and its present condition are fully exhibited in the annual report from the Navy Department

Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that portion of our navigation carried on by the use of steam power deserve the immediate and unremitting attention of the constituted authorities of the country

Seeking nothing that is not right and determined to submit to nothing that is wrong

Since the last adjournment of Congress the Secretary of the Treasury has directed the money of the United States to be deposited in certain State banks designated by him

It is not known to me that up to that period any appropriation had been required of the Chambers

It is gratifying to the friends of both to perceive that the intercourse between the two people is becoming daily more extensive

Our relations with the various Indian tribes have been undisturbed since the termination of the difficulties growing out of the hostile aggressions of the Sac and Fox Indians

whether any, and, if any, what, Indian tribes or nations who joined the enemy in the late war with Great Britain continue to receive annuities from the United States under treaties made prior to the war and not renewed since the peace

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate as to the ratification of the same, a treaty concluded with the Ottawa Indians residing on the Miami of Lake Erie on the 18th instant by the commissioners on the part of the…

I transmit also the journal of proceedings.

I transmit also the journal of their proceedings.

No order has been at any time given 'to resist' the constituted authorities of the State of South Carolina within the chartered limits of said State.