He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate co...
The officer charged with a confidential inquiry, and who reports its result under the pledge of confidence which his app...
But his suggestions and projects respecting the anticipated propositions of the delegates and his views of their persona...
I have thought proper to direct that the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Hitchcock concerning the frauds which he was charg...
Shall there be no discretionary authority permitted to refuse to become the instruments of such malevolence?
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rend...
To the Senate of the United States: I herewith transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 19th instant...
I transmit to the Senate herewith, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a report* from the Secretary of Sta...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th ultimo, I now transmit the letter and pamp...
The examination or visitation of the merchant vessels of one nation by the cruisers of another for any purposes except t...
It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in ...
No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung ...
The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner know...
I have hitherto flattered myself that the motives which influenced my conduct had been fully appreciated by those who ad...
Desirous of maintaining those principles fully, at the same time that existing obligations should be fulfilled, I have t...
