It becomes my duty to call the attention of Congress to the fact that the estimates for that branch of the public service submitted to them ...
I renominate Wharton Rector to be agent for the Shawnee and Delaware Indians.
All that our responsibility demands is that the public good should be the measure of our views, dictating alike their frank expression and h...
I have maturely considered the bill proposing to authorize a subscription of stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpi...
The constitutional power of the Federal Government to construct or promote works of internal improvement presents itself in two points of vi...
It is gratifying to me to be able to communicate to the Senate before the termination of its present session, for its advice and consent as ...
The convention provides by compromise for the adjustment and payment of indemnities to no inconsiderable amount, long sought from the Govern...
No less than twenty-three different laws have been passed, through all the forms of the Constitution, appropriating upward of $2,500,000 out...
There is every reason to believe, as the Senate will infer from the correspondence which accompanies this communication, that the proposed a...
The experience of the past has shown that the opinion of Congress is subject to such fluctuations.
After the extinction of the public debt it is not probable that any adjustment of the tariff upon principles satisfactory to the people of t...
As long as the encouragement of domestic manufactures is directed to national ends it shall receive from me a temperate but steady support.
It is not my purpose to detain you by a minute recital of the acts which sustain this assertion, but it is proper that I should notice some ...
Although no decision had been made at the date of our last advices from Mr. McLane, yet from the general character of the interviews between...
Any information in the possession of the Executive which you may deem necessary to guide your deliberations, and which it may, under existin...
This may be done by authorizing the President, in case an arrangement can be effected upon such terms as Congress would approve, to carry th...
Should this branch of the negotiation committed to our minister be successful, the present interdict would, nevertheless, be necessarily con...
I think it my duty to inform you that I am daily expecting the definitive answer of the British Government to a proposition which has been s...
