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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable circumstances in the condition of our country under which you reassemble for the performance of your official duties.
It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will.
The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.
To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them which is among the most cheering exhibitions of popular sentiment.
The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast.
By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensable to the preservation of social order in the world--been more earnestly cherished or sacredly…
I regret deeply, however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not been the case.
A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.
The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such adventures elsewhere, numerous communities have sprung up, already unrivaled in prosperity, general…
I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condition to which they may be reduced, they must not expect the interference of this Government in any form on their behalf.
Upon every officer, civil or military, and upon every citizen, by the veneration due by all freemen to the laws which they have assisted to enact for their own government, to use every effort in his power to arrest for trial and punishment…
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 the Secretary of State, together with the documents therein referred to in answer to their resolution of the 28th of…
In compliance with a resolution passed by the House of Representatives on the 23d instant in respect to the new Treasury building, I submit the inclosed report from the commissioners charged with a general superintendence of the work, and…
I nominate Lieutenant-Colonel Thayer, of the Corps of Engineers, for the brevet of colonel in the Army, agreeably to the recommendation of the Secretary of War.
With a fixed determination to use all the means in my power to put a speedy and satisfactory termination to these border troubles, I have the most confident assurances of the cordial cooperation of the British authorities, at home and in…
Such design can not succeed while the two Governments appreciate and confidently rely upon the good faith of each other in the performance of their respective duties.