I deem it proper to invite the attention of the Senate to the fact that with this day expires the limitation of time for the exchange of the...
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the p...
Had I refused to adopt this precautionary measure, and evil consequences, which many good men at the time apprehended, had followed, I shoul...
The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which all the States, and es...
The peace and order of the city itself and the security of the inauguration of the President elect, were objects of such vast importance to ...
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the subject of the Aves Is...
I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House by the Secretary of t...
Herewith I inclose, for constitutional action of the Senate thereon should it approve the same, supplemental articles of agreement made and ...
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
Before accepting this proposition I have thought it right to take the advice of the Senate.
I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.
A demand for these purposes will be made in a firm but conciliatory spirit.
The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States and that Republic in t...
After due deliberation, Congress, on the 2d of June, 1858, authorized the President 'to adopt such measures and use such force as in his jud...
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go behind their authority...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of...
