I regret deeply, however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not been the case.
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...
Though the anticipations of an abundant harvest have not everywhere been realized, yet on the whole the labors of the husbandman are rewarde...
The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.
To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them which is among the most...
The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast.
By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensabl...
I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this sentiment.
It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular wi...
The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such advent...
A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable circumstances in the condition of our countr...
My own will not be withheld.
I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condition to which they m...
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 ...
In conformity with the resolution of the Senate, I transmit herewith the report of Major-General Jesup.
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of Sta...
In compliance with a resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 23d instant in respect to the new Treasury building, I submit ...
