I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the positio...
I can not forego the expression of my regret at the apparent purport of a part of Lord Aberdeen's dispatch to Mr. Fox.
I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolutions of the 20th of December and of the 9th instant, the inclosed co...
I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to their resolution of the 14th instant.
The proceeding of Captain Jones in taking possession of the town of Monterey, in the possessions of Mexico, was entirely...
The duties which the Constitution and the laws devolve on the President must be performed by him under his official resp...
For that proceeding he has been recalled, and the letter recalling him will be found among the papers herewith communica...
The issue of one note in redemption of another is not the payment of a debt.
The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.
The proper objects of taxation are peculiarly within the discretion of the Legislature, while it is the duty of the Exec...
Any failure in this respect not produced by unforeseen causes could only be regarded by our common constituents as a ser...
To the House of Representatives:In order to enable Congress to approve or disapprove the selection of a site for a Weste...
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to ...
Stating that no information is in possession of the Government of any negotiation of a treaty, or of any overtures to tr...
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rend...
To require from the Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent to ...
To maintain that the President can exercise no discretion as to the time in which the matters thus collected shall be pr...
He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
