When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they c...
To destroy the spirit of the Union, is to destroy the Union itself.
I submit, therefore, the expediency of the passage of a resolution authorizing the exchange of ratifications at such time as may be convenie...
I deem it proper to invite the attention of the Senate to the fact that with this day expires the limitation of time for the exchange of the...
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the p...
Had I refused to adopt this precautionary measure, and evil consequences, which many good men at the time apprehended, had followed, I shoul...
The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which all the States, and es...
The peace and order of the city itself and the security of the inauguration of the President elect, were objects of such vast importance to ...
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House by the Secretary of t...
Herewith I inclose, for constitutional action of the Senate thereon should it approve the same, supplemental articles of agreement made and ...
In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the subject of the Aves Is...
Before accepting this proposition I have thought it right to take the advice of the Senate.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.
The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States and that Republic in t...
