The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.
It is only after acquiring Texas, that the question of boundary can arise between the United States and Mexico.
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general...
With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous an...
Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents th...
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...
I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces o...
I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or su...
For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to th...
I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guar...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
My fervent prayer is that it may never come.
To the Senate: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I had referred the resolu...
I transmit herewith copies of the report and papers* referred to in a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of February l...
No reason is perceived for the discrimination recognized by the existing Law, and none why the provisions of the acts of...
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information requested by t...
