Under these circumstances, as a depositary of the executive authority of the nation, I do not feel at liberty to unite w...
It places at his free disposal all the lands and goods in his district, and he may distribute them without let or hindra...
While a just, proper, and watchful jealousy of executive power constantly prevails, as it ought ever to prevail, yet it ...
The history of the world has been written in vain if it does not teach us that unrestrained authority can never be safel...
The bill, however, would seem to show upon its face that the establishment of peace and good order is not its real objec...
I know no other way in which they can be preserved and maintained except by a constant adherence to them through the var...
I submit to Congress whether this measure is not in its whole character, scope, and object without precedent and without...
The power of removal was incident to that duty, and might often be requisite to fulfill it.
I have carefully examined the bill 'to regulate the tenure of certain civil offices.'
This is a bill passed by Congress in time of peace.
To pronounce the supreme lawmaking power of an established state illegal is to say that law itself is unlawful.
I am unable to give it my assent, for reasons so grave that I hope a statement of them may have some influence on the mi...
It should induce us to pause in a course of legislation which, looking solely to the attainment of political ends, fails...
It reduces the whole population of the ten States--all persons, of every color, sex, and condition, and every stranger w...
The subject was long and earnestly debated in the Senate, and the early construction of the Constitution was, neverthele...
All the information I have on the subject convinces me that the masses of the Southern people and those who control thei...
The bill in this respect conflicts, in my judgment, with the Constitution of the United States.
For these reasons I return the bill to the Senate, in which House it originated, for the further consideration of Congre...
