The people of the United States feel, as it is hoped they always will, a warm solicitude for the success of all who are sincerely endeavoring to improve the political condition of mankind.

The safety of the mails requires that such prosecutions shall be efficient, and justice to the citizen whose time is required to be given to the public demands not only that his expenses shall be paid, but that he shall receive a…

At the time I entered upon my present duties our ordinary disbursements, without including those on account of the public debt, the Post-Office, and the trust funds in charge of the Government, had been largely increased by appropriations…

The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic.

The financial operations of the Government during the present year have, I am happy to say, been very successful.

The precautions which will be recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury to protect faithfully the public credit under the fluctuations and contingencies to which our receipts and expenditures are exposed, are commended to your early…

Nothing can compensate a people for a dependence upon others for the bread they eat.

I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasury might withdraw a large portion of it…

I have heretofore assigned to Congress my reasons for believing that the establishment of an independent National Treasury, as contemplated by the Constitution, is necessary to the safe action of the Federal Government.

Simplicity and economy in the affairs of state have never failed to chasten and invigorate republican principles, while these have been as surely subverted by national prodigality.

The present condition of the defenses of our principal seaports and navy-yards calls for the early and serious attention of Congress

It is indispensable that its finances should be untrammeled and its resources as far as practicable unencumbered.

A just regard to the delicate state of this question and a proper respect for the natural impatience of the State of Maine, not less than a conviction that the negotiation has been already protracted longer than is prudent on the part of…

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.

and withdrawing the nomination of Commander William D. Salter

I have received the resolution of the Senate of this day, upon the subject of a communication made to you by the Postmaster-General on the 27th ultimo, and have the satisfaction of laying before the Senate the accompanying letter from that…

I nominate him to be a captain in the Navy from the 8th of December, 1838

I recommend the subject for your favorable consideration.