The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.
I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this...
It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exerci...
By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of whic...
The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequ...
The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast.
I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honor of their own country which have ever charac...
To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them whi...
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 th...
I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condi...
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 ...
In compliance with a resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 23d instant in respect to the new Treasury...
I nominate Lieutenant-Colonel Thayer, of the Corps of Engineers, for the brevet of colonel in the Army, agreeably to the...
Such design can not succeed while the two Governments appreciate and confidently rely upon the good faith of each other ...
Every effort has been and will be made to prevent the success of the design, apparently formed and in the course of exec...
With a fixed determination to use all the means in my power to put a speedy and satisfactory termination to these border...
