It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress.
I transmit herewith to the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, treaties that have b...
I also transmit the journal of the commissioners who negotiated these treaties.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, containing the information required.
I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to their ratification, treaties that have been co...
I lay before the Senate, for its consideration and advice, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of A...
In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the grea...
I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled 'An act prov...
I shall continue to apply my best exertions to their application and enforcement.
With these reasons and considerations I return the bill to the Senate.
Had there been incorporated in the bill no provisions for works of a different description, depending on principles whic...
It is obvious that such appropriations involve the sanction of a principle that concedes to the General Government an un...
I have been compelled to withhold from it my signature, and it has therefore failed to become a law.
I can not too cordially congratulate Congress and my fellow citizens on the near approach of that memorable and happy ev...
From Great Britain I have the satisfaction to inform you that I continue to receive assurances of the most amicable disp...
This campaign has evinced the efficient organization of the Army and its capacity for prompt and active service.
The relations of our country continue to present the same picture of amicable intercourse that I had the satisfaction to...
Although the pestilence which had traversed the Old World has entered our limits and extended its ravages over much of o...
