No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in ...
In compliance with your resolution of the 12th of February, 1841, requesting me to communicate to the House of Represent...
In reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th December, I transmit herewith the accompanying letter
An Empire supposed to contain 300,000,000 subjects, fertile in various rich products of the earth, not without the knowl...
Considering, therefore, that the United States possesses so large a share of the intercourse with those islands, it is d...
She has agreed in the treaty with England that correspondence between the agents of the two Governments shall be on equa...
The exports, too, from the United States to China constitute an interesting and growing part of the commerce of the coun...
Events appear likely to break down and soften this spirit of nonintercourse and to bring China ere long into the relatio...
The importations into the United States from China are known to be large, having amounted in some years, as will be seen...
Far remote from the dominions of European powers, its growth and prosperity as an independent state may yet be in a high...
I herewith transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their res...
I do not deem it consistent with the public interest to make any communication on the subject.
I herewith communicate to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the Senate adopt...
In advance of the acquirement of individual rights to these lands sound policy dictates that every effort should be reso...
This rule was evidently designed to give to the President a reasonable opportunity of perusing important acts of Congres...
I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, wit...
It was impossible to read the bill understandingly and with proper deliberation before the hour fixed for the adjournmen...