Legislation should never encourage dishonesty or crime.
In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official intimation from the Gov...
It is, nevertheless, a subject of national congratulation that the choice has been effected by the independent suffrages...
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The brief space which has elapsed since the close of ...
We must all consider it a great distinction and privilege to have been chosen by the people to bear a part in the admini...
The illness and death of the late Secretary of State prevented the commencement of the contemplated negotiation.
Our unfortunate countrymen who from time to time suffer shipwreck on the coasts of the eastern seas are entitled to prot...
Our grateful thanks are due to an all-merciful Providence, not only for staying the pestilence which in different forms ...
A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a de...
Daniel Webster died at Marshfield, in Massachusetts, on Sunday, the 24th of October, between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morn...
The Acting Secretary of State will communicate this sad intelligence to the diplomatic corps near this Government and, t...
In the expression of individual regret at this afflicting event the Executive Departments of the Government will be care...
The fame of our illustrious statesman belongs to his country, the admiration of it to the world.
The members of the Cabinet are requested, as a further testimony of respect for the deceased, to wear the usual badges o...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st instant, requesting information in respect to foreign postal arran...
I transmit a further report from the Secretary of State relative to the Lobos Islands.
As it is not deemed advisable that the instruction to Mr. R. M. Walsh, a copy of which is herewith transmitted, should b...
This report is accompanied by a copy of the orders of the Navy Department to Commodore McCauley, requested by the resolu...
