Stating that no information is in possession of the Government of any negotiation of a treaty, or of any overtures to tr...
The officer charged with a confidential inquiry, and who reports its result under the pledge of confidence which his app...
To maintain that the President can exercise no discretion as to the time in which the matters thus collected shall be pr...
The knowledge that such is to be the consequence will inevitably prevent the performance of duties of that character, an...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th instant, requesting me to communicate answer...
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rend...
I have thought proper to direct that the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Hitchcock concerning the frauds which he was charg...
To require from the Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent to ...
But his suggestions and projects respecting the anticipated propositions of the delegates and his views of their persona...
He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
Shall there be no discretionary authority permitted to refuse to become the instruments of such malevolence?
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate co...
I transmit to the Senate herewith, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a report* from the Secretary of Sta...
To the Senate of the United States: I herewith transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 19th instant...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th ultimo, I now transmit the letter and pamp...
It is difficult to say that such vessels can claim any interference of the Government in their behalf, into whosesoever ...
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung ...
