I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention further to provide for the pay...
A copy of the instructions from the Department of State to the minister of the United States at Mexico relative to the c...
We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.
The principles laid down in Lord Aberdeen's dispatches and the assurances of indemnity therein held out, although the ut...
I can not forego the expression of my regret at the apparent purport of a part of Lord Aberdeen's dispatch to Mr. Fox.
Those engaged in it were as little liable to inquiry or interruption as any others.
This correspondence will show the general grounds on which the Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with the decis...
I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the positio...
It is left to Congress to consider, under these circumstances, whether, although in strictness salvage may have been law...
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolutions of the 20th of December and of the 9th instant, the inclosed co...
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 14th instant.
For that proceeding he has been recalled, and the letter recalling him will be found among the papers herewith communica...
The proceeding of Captain Jones in taking possession of the town of Monterey, in the possessions of Mexico, was entirely...
The duties which the Constitution and the laws devolve on the President must be performed by him under his official resp...
The proper objects of taxation are peculiarly within the discretion of the Legislature, while it is the duty of the Exec...
The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.
Any failure in this respect not produced by unforeseen causes could only be regarded by our common constituents as a ser...
The issue of one note in redemption of another is not the payment of a debt.
