Every intelligent man should be charged with the knowledge that as a general rule commercial intercourse with the enemy is entirely inconsis...
It seems to me that some suggestions and recommendations may properly accompany my approval of this bill.
The experiment of blending the social habits and mutual race idiosyncrasies of the Chinese laboring classes with those of the great body of ...
It is thus easy to learn how the joint desires and unequivocal mutual understanding of the two Governments were brought into articulated for...
But while thus exercising our undoubted right in the interest of our people and for the general welfare of our country, justice and fairness...
I can not but regard the expressed demand on the part of China for a reexamination and renewed discussion of the topics so completely covere...
when the same is no longer used as a cemetery it should revert to the Government.
the description of the land which the railroad company is allowed the option of purchasing should be exact and certain for the interest of a...
The State of Kansas has been granted all the public land to which it can lay any legal or equitable claim under the law of 1862.
There should, in my opinion, be a provision that no bodies heretofore interred in this ground should be disturbed.
I herewith transmit, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of a report from the Secretary of State, with acco...
Unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against injuries suffered by anyone in the military service, no matter how incurred, and a...
If an American vessel should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant from some Canadian port, from which there is rai...
Our government is the creation of the people, established to carry out their designs and accomplish their good.
Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation.
They ask for bread and they are given a stone.
The people will hardly be deceived by their abandonment of the field of legislative action to meet in political convention.
This case has been very exhaustively examined by the Pension Bureau upon the application for a pension filed there by the beneficiary named ...