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 transmit to Congress the translation of two letters from the minister of France to the Secretary of State, relating to...
Whether the acquisition of Florida may be considered as affording an inducement to make any change in the position or st...
Should another war occur before it is completed, the experience of the last marks in characters too strong to be mistake...
I hereby withdraw all the nominations on which the Senate has not decided until I can make a more full communication and...
It is known also that the seizure of no part of our Union could affect so deeply and vitally the immediate interests of ...
It is to mitigate these evils in future wars, and even for the higher purpose of preventing war itself, that the decisio...
Having executed the act entitled 'An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States' on gre...
I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, together with the annual return of the militia of the United States, and ...
The measure is proposed under a thorough conviction that it is in strict accord with the law of nations, that it is just...
Through the whole of this contest the United States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled with the utmost impartiali...
The revolutionary movement in the Spanish Provinces in this hemisphere attracted the attention and excited the sympathy ...
For the last three years the Government of Spain has not sent a single corps of troops to any part of that country, nor ...
To motives of interest this Government has invariably disclaimed all pretension, being resolved to take no part in the c...
As soon as the movement assumed such a steady and consistent form as to make the success of the Provinces probable, the ...
When we regard, then, the great length of time which this war has been prosecuted, the complete success which has attend...
I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of War.
