"I would respectfully invite the early attention of Congress to the adoption of the legal provisions therein suggested, or such other measures as may appear more expedient, for increasing the public se..."
"I herewith transmit a special report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, for your consideration, in relation to the recently discovered default of Samuel Swartwout, late collector of the cust..."
"In order to obtain such information as might serve to facilitate its attainment, the Secretary of State was directed in July last to apply to persons versed in science and familiar with the subject of..."
"By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensable to the preservation of social order in the world--been mor..."
"The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such adventures elsewhere, numerous communities have sprung up, already..."
"Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable circumstances in the condition of our country under which you reassemble for the performance of your off..."
"But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggle, and by inevitable consequence to the war which is waged in its support, is a ..."
"It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will."
"The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions."
"I regret deeply, however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not been the case."
"The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast."
"To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them which is among the most cheering exhibitions of popular sentiment."
"I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this sentiment."
"A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated."
"I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honor of their own country which have ever characterized the citizens of the United States would have prevented any portion of th..."
"Though the anticipations of an abundant harvest have not everywhere been realized, yet on the whole the labors of the husbandman are rewarded with a bountiful return."
"My own will not be withheld."
"Upon every officer, civil or military, and upon every citizen, by the veneration due by all freemen to the laws which they have assisted to enact for their own government, to use every effort in his p..."
