The courage with which you in an open field maintained the contest against an intrenched foe and the consummate skill and success with which...
I transmit a copy of a dispatch to the Secretary of State from Mr. Adams, United States minister at London, and of the correspondence to whi...
It is due to this officer to state that at the period of the passage of the law of December, 1861, he was and still is absent on duty on a f...
The nomination of Captain Glendy is accordingly withdrawn.
If they or any of them shall be by Congress disposed of in reward or compliment of military service, I think General Butler is entitled to t...
I have in my possession three valuable swords, formerly the property of General David E. Twiggs, which I now place at the disposal of Congre...
I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th instant.
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and the Republic of Liberia,...
Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty o...
This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make.
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th of July last, requesting the communication of correspondence relatin...
I most cordially recommend that Lieutenant-Commander George U. Morris, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for the dete...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the United States of the 13th of March last, requesting a copy of the correspondence rela...
I most cordially recommend that Commander John L. Worden, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for the eminent skill and...
I recommend an appropriation of this sum for the benefit of the owners of the Jules et Marie.
The obligation of this Government to make amends therefor could not be questioned if the injury resulted from any fault on the part of the S...
The struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exagg...
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occ...
