The accompanying documents, received from the Commissioner of Agriculture, are transmitted to the Senate in reply to the resolution of the 7...
To the Senate of the United States:I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the establi...
The provision of regular steam postal communication by aid from government has been the forerunner of the commercial predominance of Great B...
Continued opposition to the full and free enjoyment of the rights of citizenship conferred upon the colored people by the recent amendments ...
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
Competitive examinations in aid of impartial appointments and promotions have been conducted for some years past in several of the Executive...
The full appreciation of the opportunities which our front on the Pacific Ocean gives to commerce with Japan, China, and the East Indies, wi...
A method which has so approved itself by experimental tests at points where such tests may be fairly considered conclusive should be extende...
The most serious obstacle, however, to an improvement of the civil service, and especially to a reform in the method of appointment and remo...
The paramount question still is as to the enjoyment of the fight by every American citizen who has the requisite qualifications to freely ca...
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
Whereas satisfactory evidence has been given to me by the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China that no discriminating duties of to...
It is hereby ordered that the following described country, ... be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart...
by virtue of the authority in me vested by law, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost ...
I therefore recommend that on Thursday, the 25th day of November next, the people meet in their respective places of worship to make their a...
At no period in their history since the United States became a nation has this people had so abundant and so universal reasons for joy and g...
Health, wealth, and prosperity throughout all our borders; peace, honor, and friendship with all the world; firm and faithful adherence by t...
The Executive order dated December 5, 1872, creating the “Fort Harney military reservation,” in Oregon, is hereby canceled, and the lands em...
