Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty o...
This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make.
I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th instant.
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 17th of July last, requesting the communication of correspondence relatin...
I most cordially recommend that Lieutenant-Commander George U. Morris, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for the dete...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the United States of the 13th of March last, requesting a copy of the correspondence rela...
I most cordially recommend that Commander John L. Worden, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for the eminent skill and...
The obligation of this Government to make amends therefor could not be questioned if the injury resulted from any fault on the part of the S...
I recommend an appropriation of this sum for the benefit of the owners of the Jules et Marie.
I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordenskiold.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occ...
Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.
The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade has been put into operation with a good prospect of complete success.
We must think anew, act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves from the past, and then we shall save our country.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.
The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible.
The struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exagg...
Ordered, That no arms ammunition, or munitions of war be cleared or allowed to be exported from the United States until further order
