For these reasons I have deemed it proper to submit the whole matter to Congress, for such action as they may deem best.
The tone of the letter of instructions from Mr. Manuel Bertran de Lis is somewhat more peremptory than could be wished, but this circumstanc...
Respect to the Spanish Government demands that its urgent representation should be candidly and impartially weighed.
In answer to the resolution of the Senate dated the 13th ultimo, requesting further information in regard to the imprisonment of the United ...
If Congress should be of opinion that the claim is just, every consideration points to the propriety of its prompt recognition and payment, ...
In reply to the resolution of your honorable body of the 5th instant, I herewith communicate a report of the Secretary of the Interior givin...
In pursuance of the eleventh article of the treaty with the Chickasaw Indians signed on the 20th day of October, 1832, I herewith transmit a...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 30th ultimo, requesting information in regard to the establishment of a new British colony ...
To the Senate of the United States: In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 3d instant, calling for information relative to a proposed t...
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, an additional article, signed in this city on the 16th ultimo, ...
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, between the U...
We must all consider it a great distinction and privilege to have been chosen by the people to bear a part in the administration of such a G...
A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to ...
The illness and death of the late Secretary of State prevented the commencement of the contemplated negotiation.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The brief space which has elapsed since the close of your last session ha...
Our unfortunate countrymen who from time to time suffer shipwreck on the coasts of the eastern seas are entitled to protection.
Our grateful thanks are due to an all-merciful Providence, not only for staying the pestilence which in different forms has desolated some o...
In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official intimation from the Government of Great Bri...
