"In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, which is accompanied by a copy and translation of the pamphlet* ..."
"a copy of the report of the agents appointed to inquire what depredations had been committed by the Seminole and Creek Indians on the property of citizens of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama."
"I transmit herewith, in compliance with the requirements of the second section of the act of March 3, 1837, making appropriations for the Indian Department, a communication from the War Department."
"I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, in answer to their resolution of the 9th instant."
"To the Senate: I transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action, a treaty made with the Chippewa Indians of Sagahaw on the 20th of December, 1837."
"In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, explanatory of the causes which have prevented a compliance with a re..."
"I regret, however, to inform you that an outrage of a most aggravated character has been committed, accompanied by a hostile though temporary invasion of our territory, producing the strongest feeling..."
"To guard against the possible recurrence of any similar act I have thought it indispensable to call out a portion of the militia, to be posted on that frontier."
"It was to be apprehended that causes of complaint might arise on the line dividing the United States from Her Britannic Majesty's dominions."
"I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution."
"Every precaution was therefore taken on our part authorized by the existing laws, and as the troops of the Provinces were embodied on the Canadian side it was hoped that no serious violation of the ri..."
"I ask such appropriations as the circumstances in which our country is thus unexpectedly placed require."
"I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of that body dated the 5th instant."
"A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle."
"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts."
"The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution."
"Those who are to be the judges of the law ought to be independent, and under the influence of none but heaven."
