Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive d...
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
