In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the grades and corps to ...
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in the discharge of this ...
To discriminate between men of acknowledged merit, especially in a way to affect so sensibly and materially their feelings and interests, fo...
As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of the Army, it is not p...
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others dismissed, but unde...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in officers and men, and tha...
Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone could have a claim of...
Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting those officers who w...
In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in serv...
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitled 'An act to reduce ...
I transmit to Congress the translation of two letters from the minister of France to the Secretary of State, relating to the claim of the he...
Should another war occur before it is completed, the experience of the last marks in characters too strong to be mistaken its inevitable con...
It is known also that the seizure of no part of our Union could affect so deeply and vitally the immediate interests of so many States and o...
Having executed the act entitled 'An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States' on great consideration and...
It is to mitigate these evils in future wars, and even for the higher purpose of preventing war itself, that the decision was formed to make...
