It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.
The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factio...
If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
This Union must be preserved.
My reasons for this step may be fully understood
I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon
I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations
I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of...
Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to ...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the...
The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above mentioned, with the ...
I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton and Stokes, with a re...
For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.
I transmit herewith a copy of the instructions, prepared under my direction by the War Department, for the commissioners appointed by me, in...
I herewith transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, embracing a copy of the correspondence req...
