I have the honor to transmit herewith additional letters and documents embraced in the resolution of the House of Repres...
I deem it proper to submit all the material facts to your consideration, with a view to procure such additional legislat...
I transmit the accompanying documents, marked from 1 to 5,* in reply to a resolution of yesterday's date, calling for co...
Relating to the 'Buckshot war'.
I would respectfully invite the early attention of Congress to the adoption of the legal provisions therein suggested, o...
I herewith transmit a special report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, for your consideration, in relation to...
In order to obtain such information as might serve to facilitate its attainment, the Secretary of State was directed in ...
To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them whi...
The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.
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 whic...
I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honor of their own country which have ever charac...
It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exerci...
A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.
But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggl...
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable circumstances in the con...
The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequ...
I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this...
