This rule was evidently designed to give to the President a reasonable opportunity of perusing important acts of Congres...
It is exceedingly to be regretted that a necessity should ever exist for such suspension in the case of bills of great i...
For my opinions relative to the provisions contained in this bill it is only necessary that I should refer to previous c...
I therefore, in the spirit of conciliation, and influenced by no other desire than to rescue the great interests of the ...
The chief embarrassments which at the moment exhibit themselves have arisen from overaction, and the most difficult task...
I can not forego the occasion to urge its importance to the credit of the Government in a financial point of view.
My convictions are most strong that these benefits would flow from the adoption of this measure; but if the result shoul...
The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without ...
Extravagant duties defeat their end and object, not only by exciting in the public mind an hostility to the manufacturin...
I recommend to Congress to take into consideration the propriety of reimbursing a fine imposed on General Jackson at New...
Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of e...
If in assigning my objections to the bill I had so far forgotten what was due to the House of Representatives as to impu...
What may happen to an individual is of little importance, but the Constitution of the country, or any one of its great a...
I protest against this whole proceeding of the House of Representatives as ex parte and extrajudicial.
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of June last, upon the subject of claims of citi...
I therefore nominate John H. Clack to be a captain in the Navy of the United States.
The business engages earnest attention, and will be made the subject of a full communication to Congress at the earliest...
In the present state of the correspondence and of the relations between the two Governments on these important subjects ...
