It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go be...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seced...
I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress with my message of the 8th of January the correspondence which occurred in De...
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
It affords me great satisfaction to perform this duty.
I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are emin...
The amendment does not seem necessary to secure any right either of the United States or of any American citizen claimin...
Nor is it known or believed that there are any claims against the Government of Venezuela having any connection with tha...
I therefore recommend the reconsideration of the subject.
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon t...
I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.
However strong may be my desire to enter into such an agreement, I am convinced that I do not possess the power.
It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be pr...
I am one of those who will never despair of the Republic.
I return with my objections to the House, in which it originated.
It will be for Congress to consider whether the precedent established by this bill will not in effect annul all restrict...
The increase of the sum appropriated in the present bill over that in the bill of the last session, being within a fract...
