In forming the first commercial treaty between the two Governments an anxious desire has been felt to introduce such pro...
The immediate proximity of Texas to the United States and the consequent facility of intercourse, the nature of its prin...
It was thought no more than reasonable to grant this facility to the trade of Texas, under such conditions as seem best ...
But there are circumstances existing in this case which have been thought to justify a departure from the general rule, ...
I have the satisfaction to communicate to the Senate the results of the negotiations recently had in this city with the ...
If this treaty shall receive the approbation of the Senate, it will terminate a difference respecting boundary which has...
The Government of the United States has by law declared the African slave trade piracy, and at its suggestion other nati...
The destruction of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser four or five years ago occasioned no small degree of excitement a...
The line of boundary, then, from the source of the St. Croix to the St. Lawrence, so far as Maine and Massachusetts are ...
The surrender to justice of persons who, having committed high crimes, seek an asylum in the territories of a neighborin...
It has been thought highly important, therefore, to provide for the whole case by a proper treaty stipulation.
The early and prominent part which the Government of the United States has taken for the abolition of this unlawful and ...
Relating to the macadamizing of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D, C.
After all, the effect of what I do is substantially to call on Congress to reconsider the subject.
I felt it incumbent on me to urge upon Congress to raise the duties accordingly, imposing them in a spirit of a wise dis...
I can not consent to do so at the sacrifice of the peace and harmony of the country and the clearest convictions of publ...
Nothing can be more painful to any individual called upon to perform the Chief Executive duties under our limited Consti...
Surely if the pause for reflection intended by the wise authors of the Constitution by referring the subject back to Con...
