I have great pleasure in submitting to the Senate, for its ratification and approval, a treaty which has been concluded ...
I submit it to your mature consideration whether, in view of the important benefits arising from the treaty to the trade...
Our prayers should evermore be offered up to the Father of the Universe for His wisdom to direct us in the path of our d...
peace is the true policy of nations
I shall carry with me into retirement the gratifying reflection that as my sole object throughout has been to advance th...
I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude.
The responsibility of deciding this question is now devolved upon you.
It is only after acquiring Texas, that the question of boundary can arise between the United States and Mexico.
The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.
I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...
Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents th...
With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous an...
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general...
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to th...
I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guar...
For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
