In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the su...
I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House b...
Herewith I inclose, for constitutional action of the Senate thereon should it approve the same, supplemental articles of...
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and...
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 an...
After due deliberation, Congress, on the 2d of June, 1858, authorized the President 'to adopt such measures and use such...
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 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...
