He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate co...
To the Senate of the United States: I herewith transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 19th instant...
I transmit to the Senate herewith, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a report* from the Secretary of Sta...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th ultimo, I now transmit the letter and pamp...
It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in ...
No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
It is difficult to say that such vessels can claim any interference of the Government in their behalf, into whosesoever ...
Desirous of maintaining those principles fully, at the same time that existing obligations should be fulfilled, I have t...
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
The treaty has not been communicated to the Government of the United States from any other quarter, in any other manner,...
I have hitherto flattered myself that the motives which influenced my conduct had been fully appreciated by those who ad...
The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner know...
I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung ...
The examination or visitation of the merchant vessels of one nation by the cruisers of another for any purposes except t...
In compliance with your resolution of the 12th of February, 1841, requesting me to communicate to the House of Represent...
An Empire supposed to contain 300,000,000 subjects, fertile in various rich products of the earth, not without the knowl...
Considering, therefore, that the United States possesses so large a share of the intercourse with those islands, it is d...
