If the proposition contained in the resolution does not meet the approval of Congress and the country, there is the end;...
I say 'initiation' because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all.
War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means to this end.
In the mere financial or pecuniary view any member of Congress with the census tables and Treasury reports before him ca...
In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means...
I submit to the Senate, for its consideration, a copy of a message addressed to that body by my immediate predecessor on...
As the 'journal' is an original document, pertaining to the archives of the Department of State, it is proper, when the ...
Such being the general principles which govern the United States in their foreign relations, you may be assured, sir, th...
But while the United States are thus a friend to all other nations, they do not seek to conceal the fact that they cheri...
The United States have no enmities, animosities, or rivalries, and no interests which conflict with the welfare, safety,...
I recommend, therefore, that the Senate consent to the extension of time for ______ days from and after the expiration o...
I transmit to Congress a translation of an instruction to the minister of His Majesty the King of Italy accredited to th...
I transmit herewith a communication of the Secretary of War, inclosing a report of the Adjutant-General, in answer to a ...
I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch to the Secretary of State from the minister resident of the United States at...
Considering that the existing circumstances of the country allow a partial restoration of commercial intercourse between...
I hereby license and permit such commercial intercourse in all cases within the rules and regulations which have been or...
That Major-General John A. Dix, commanding in Baltimore, and the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, of New York, be, and they are ...
WAR DEPARTMENTIt is ordered, first. That a special commission of two persons, one of military rank and the other in civi...
