No less than twenty-three different laws have been passed, through all the forms of the Constitution, appropriating upwa...
It is gratifying to me to be able to communicate to the Senate before the termination of its present session, for its ad...
There is every reason to believe, as the Senate will infer from the correspondence which accompanies this communication,...
The convention provides by compromise for the adjustment and payment of indemnities to no inconsiderable amount, long so...
The experience of the past has shown that the opinion of Congress is subject to such fluctuations.
I have maturely considered the bill proposing to authorize a subscription of stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, ...
All that our responsibility demands is that the public good should be the measure of our views, dictating alike their fr...
After the extinction of the public debt it is not probable that any adjustment of the tariff upon principles satisfactor...
As long as the encouragement of domestic manufactures is directed to national ends it shall receive from me a temperate ...
It is not my purpose to detain you by a minute recital of the acts which sustain this assertion, but it is proper that I...
I think it my duty to inform you that I am daily expecting the definitive answer of the British Government to a proposit...
This may be done by authorizing the President, in case an arrangement can be effected upon such terms as Congress would ...
Should this branch of the negotiation committed to our minister be successful, the present interdict would, nevertheless...
Although no decision had been made at the date of our last advices from Mr. McLane, yet from the general character of th...
Any information in the possession of the Executive which you may deem necessary to guide your deliberations, and which i...
To the House of Representatives.GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith, for the use of the House, the report of a survey made in...
GENTLEMEN: I herewith transmit to Congress the report of the engineer employed to survey the bar at the mouth of Sag Har...
I have the honor, in compliance with a resolution of your House of the 10th ultimo, to transmit the inclosed documents.
