In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable sec...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the Un...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning the African slave tr...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question t...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent per...
the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the clause in question, it ...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon...
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the purpose of obtaining s...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs should be continued in...
I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportation of the mails betw...
