I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs sh...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive d...
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland rout...
