I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has wisely withheld that ...
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, ...
The national flag has floated in glory over every sea.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy.
I possess no dispensing power.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
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...
This is essentially a People's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of go...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning the African slave tr...
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...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
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?
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
