I herewith transmit a special report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, for your consideration, in relation to...
In order to obtain such information as might serve to facilitate its attainment, the Secretary of State was directed in ...
Though the anticipations of an abundant harvest have not everywhere been realized, yet on the whole the labors of the hu...
The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable circumstances in the con...
I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this...
I regret deeply, however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not been the case.
A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.
I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honor of their own country which have ever charac...
It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exerci...
The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequ...
But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggl...
By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of whic...
The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast.
To this practical operation of our institutions, so evident and successful, we owe that increased attachment to them whi...
My own will not be withheld.
Upon every officer, civil or military, and upon every citizen, by the veneration due by all freemen to the laws which th...
I hereby warn all those who have engaged in these criminal enterprises, if persisted in, that, whatever may be the condi...
