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...
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.
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 immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible.
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...
I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordenskiold.
We must think anew, act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves from the past, and then we shall save our country.
The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade has been put into operation with a good prospect of complete success.
Ordered, That no arms ammunition, or munitions of war be cleared or allowed to be exported from the United States until further order
At this time of public distress, men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning themselves to vice and...
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest r...
The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day o...
Moreover, to authorize all such attorneys and marshals, whenever there may be reasonable ground to fear any forcible resistance to them in t...
Ordered by the President of the United States, That the Attorney-General be charged with the superintendence and direction of all proceeding...
