I have to state that having referred the resolution to the Secretary of State, and it appearing, by a report from him, t...
I communicate to them herewith copies of the communications received from the Norwegian Government in relation to the su...
I recommend them particularly to the consideration of Congress, believing that although there may be ground for controve...
I transmit herewith to Congress copies of letters received at the Department of State from the minister of Great Britain...
requesting to be furnished with a copy of the judicial proceedings in the United States court for the district of Louisi...
To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives copies of sundry papers having relation t...
I now transmit a report from the Secretary or State, containing the information embraced by that resolution.
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitle...
In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the ...
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in th...
In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.
Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting ...
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late ac...
Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone c...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...
I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
