For that proceeding he has been recalled, and the letter recalling him will be found among the papers herewith communica...
The proceeding of Captain Jones in taking possession of the town of Monterey, in the possessions of Mexico, was entirely...
Any failure in this respect not produced by unforeseen causes could only be regarded by our common constituents as a ser...
The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.
The proper objects of taxation are peculiarly within the discretion of the Legislature, while it is the duty of the Exec...
The issue of one note in redemption of another is not the payment of a debt.
To the House of Representatives:In order to enable Congress to approve or disapprove the selection of a site for a Weste...
To the House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to ...
Stating that no information is in possession of the Government of any negotiation of a treaty, or of any overtures to tr...
I have thought proper to direct that the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Hitchcock concerning the frauds which he was charg...
To maintain that the President can exercise no discretion as to the time in which the matters thus collected shall be pr...
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate co...
Shall there be no discretionary authority permitted to refuse to become the instruments of such malevolence?
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rend...
He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th instant, requesting me to communicate answer...
The officer charged with a confidential inquiry, and who reports its result under the pledge of confidence which his app...
The knowledge that such is to be the consequence will inevitably prevent the performance of duties of that character, an...
