I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate committee shall have e...
The officer charged with a confidential inquiry, and who reports its result under the pledge of confidence which his appointment implies, ou...
But his suggestions and projects respecting the anticipated propositions of the delegates and his views of their personal characters can not...
Shall there be no discretionary authority permitted to refuse to become the instruments of such malevolence?
To require from the Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent to the denial of its po...
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rendered its publication...
The knowledge that such is to be the consequence will inevitably prevent the performance of duties of that character, and thus the Governmen...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th instant, requesting me to communicate answers to certain queries...
To the Senate of the United States: I herewith transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 19th instant, reports* from the ...
I transmit to the Senate herewith, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a report* from the Secretary of State, with accompanyin...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th ultimo, I now transmit the letter and pamphlet which accompani...
The treaty has not been communicated to the Government of the United States from any other quarter, in any other manner, or for any other pu...
The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner known to its proceedings...
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung over it.
It is difficult to say that such vessels can claim any interference of the Government in their behalf, into whosesoever hands they may happe...
Desirous of maintaining those principles fully, at the same time that existing obligations should be fulfilled, I have thought it most consi...
No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
