That review has satisfied me that I could not have a more able adviser in the administration of public affairs or the co...
The country, I feel assured, would be represented at Paris in the person of Mr. Wise by one wholly unsurpassed in exalte...
His rejection by the Senate has caused me to reconsider his qualifications, and I see no cause to doubt that he is emine...
I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him.
A careful search in the Government libraries of Washington warrants me in asserting that the report has never been print...
I was led to do so by considerations of his high talent, his exalted character, and great moral worth.
The respect which I have for the wisdom of the Senate has caused me again, since his rejection, to reconsider his merits...
I did so in full view of his consummate abilities, his unquestioned patriotism and full capacity to discharge with honor...
I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives copies of the final report and appendices of the joint commission ap...
A copy of the instructions from the Department of State to the minister of the United States at Mexico relative to the c...
To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, whi...
By adverting to the signatures appended to the original draft of the convention as transmitted from the Department of St...
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention further to provide for the pay...
I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the positio...
It is left to Congress to consider, under these circumstances, whether, although in strictness salvage may have been law...
I can not forego the expression of my regret at the apparent purport of a part of Lord Aberdeen's dispatch to Mr. Fox.
We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.
This correspondence will show the general grounds on which the Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with the decis...