To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in reply to the resolution of...
I venture to hope it will appear that we have practiced prudence and liberality toward foreign powers, averting causes o...
It is gratifying to know that the expenditures made necessary by the rebellion are not beyond the resources of the loyal...
I invite your attention to the correspondence between Her Britannic Majesty's minister accredited to this Government and...
If any good reason exists why we should persevere longer in withholding our recognition of the independence and sovereig...
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
The revenue from all sources, including loans, for the financial year ending on the 30th of June, 1861, was $86,835,900....
The war continues.
We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the dislo...
If it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to assume, that foreign nations in this case, discarding all m...
The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also.
I therefore recommend, as a military measure, that Congress provide for the construction of such road as speedily as pos...
I repeat the recommendation of my predecessor in his annual message to Congress in December last in regard to the dispos...
The execution of the laws for the suppression of the African slave trade has been confided to the Department of the Inte...
Labor is prior to and independent of capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labo...