By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by section 5287 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and in execut...
With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompa...
I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report fr...
Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated...
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that...
Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantia...
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction...
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in t...
The danger of a defeat of the popular choice in an election by the House of Representatives is no greater than in an ele...
The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.
In compliance with and execution of the act of Congress before mentioned, do issue this my proclamation, announcing the ...
I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election ...
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they ha...
By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Depar...
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 2d instant, together with accompanying papers.
I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Se...
For these objections, and many others that might be presented, I cannot approve this bill, and therefore return it for t...
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th i...