I have no other solicitude upon the subject.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence between the Dep...
To the House of Representatives: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a communication from the Secretary ...
The practice of making such appointments, whether in a vacation or during the session of Congress, has been constantly f...
It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
It was wise to make a provision which would enable the President to avoid a total suspension of business in the interval...
The lawfulness of the practice rests upon the exigencies of the public service; which require that the movements of the ...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the q...
The national flag has floated in glory over every sea.
Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun.
I possess no dispensing power.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
