By what authority have the committee undertaken to investigate the course of the President in regard to the convention which framed the Leco...
This bill will open one vast field for speculation.
It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers dele...
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions giv...
There is an enlightened justice, as well as a beautiful symmetry, in every part of the Constitution.
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.
If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlar...
By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to pr...
This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to ...
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...
I solemnly protested against the creation of a committee, at the head of which was placed my accuser.
The resolution of the House, so far as it is accusatory of the President, is confined to an inquiry whether he had used corrupt or improper ...
The true meaning of these words is clearly stated by Chief Justice Taney in delivering the opinion of the court (19 Howard, p. 436).
This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the p...
But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.
It will greatly reduce the market value of these warrants.
I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior that the treaty should be ratified, with the amendments suggested by the Com...
