It is impossible to conceive any state of society more intolerable than this; and yet it is to this condition that 12,000,000 American citiz...
Within a period less than a year the legislation of Congress has attempted to strip the executive department of the Government of some of it...
The inevitable result is that the Federal Government, by the agency of its own sworn officers, in effect assumes the civil government of the...
They apply equally well to the bill now before me, and I am content merely to refer to them and to reiterate my conviction that they are sou...
For reasons heretofore stated in my several veto messages to Congress upon the subject of reconstruction, I return without my approval the '...
I return herewith the bill entitled 'An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the reb...
It is exceedingly difficult at the present time to estimate the probable expense of carrying into full effect the two acts of March last and...
The debts of these States, thus legitimately incurred, when accurately ascertained will, it is believed, approximate $100,000,000.
It is worthy the consideration of Congress and the country whether, if the Federal Government by its action were to assume such obligations,...
I communicate herewith a report on the subject from the Secretary of State, from which it appears that the correspondence called for by the ...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, requesting me to transmit all the official corresponden...
In compliance with so much of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th instant as requests information in regard to certain...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th of July, requesting the President 'to inform the House what Sta...
I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General, additional to the reports submitted by him December 31, 1866, and March 2, 1867.
This instrument provides for a cession of territory to the United States in consideration of the payment of $7,200,000 in gold.
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the Un...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for commercial...
The oath prescribed in the supplemental act defines all the qualifications required, and every person who can take that oath is entitled to ...
