It is exceedingly to be regretted that a necessity should ever exist for such suspension in the case of bills of great importance, and there...
It was impossible to read the bill understandingly and with proper deliberation before the hour fixed for the adjournment of the two Houses.
For my opinions relative to the provisions contained in this bill it is only necessary that I should refer to previous communications made b...
I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Sac and Fox Indians, with communications from the War Department in relation t...
Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of equal and impartial j...
I can not forego the occasion to urge its importance to the credit of the Government in a financial point of view.
My convictions are most strong that these benefits would flow from the adoption of this measure; but if the result should be adverse there i...
I recommend to Congress to take into consideration the propriety of reimbursing a fine imposed on General Jackson at New Orleans at the time...
Extravagant duties defeat their end and object, not only by exciting in the public mind an hostility to the manufacturing interests, but by ...
The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without which all its moveme...
I therefore, in the spirit of conciliation, and influenced by no other desire than to rescue the great interests of the country from the vor...
The chief embarrassments which at the moment exhibit themselves have arisen from overaction, and the most difficult task which remains to be...
If in assigning my objections to the bill I had so far forgotten what was due to the House of Representatives as to impugn its motives in pa...
I protest against this whole proceeding of the House of Representatives as ex parte and extrajudicial.
What may happen to an individual is of little importance, but the Constitution of the country, or any one of its great and clear principles ...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of June last, upon the subject of claims of citizens of the United S...
I therefore nominate John H. Clack to be a captain in the Navy of the United States.
In the present state of the correspondence and of the relations between the two Governments on these important subjects it is not deemed con...
