Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs should be continued in...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the clause in question, it ...
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the purpose of obtaining s...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland route, the postages deri...
The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade with the Pacific via th...
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifest...
They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand I am well satisfied ...
I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportation of the mails betw...
I therefore earnestly recommend that the act referred to be so modified as to empower the Postmaster-General to provide for carrying the Cal...
The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's appr...
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions giv...
And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative branch of Government to usurp ...
This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our people.
