The chief embarrassments which at the moment exhibit themselves have arisen from overaction, and the most difficult task...
Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of e...
The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without ...
Extravagant duties defeat their end and object, not only by exciting in the public mind an hostility to the manufacturin...
I recommend to Congress to take into consideration the propriety of reimbursing a fine imposed on General Jackson at New...
My convictions are most strong that these benefits would flow from the adoption of this measure; but if the result shoul...
If in assigning my objections to the bill I had so far forgotten what was due to the House of Representatives as to impu...
I protest against this whole proceeding of the House of Representatives as ex parte and extrajudicial.
What may happen to an individual is of little importance, but the Constitution of the country, or any one of its great a...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of June last, upon the subject of claims of citi...
I therefore nominate John H. Clack to be a captain in the Navy of the United States.
In the present state of the correspondence and of the relations between the two Governments on these important subjects ...
The business engages earnest attention, and will be made the subject of a full communication to Congress at the earliest...
But there are circumstances existing in this case which have been thought to justify a departure from the general rule, ...
In forming the first commercial treaty between the two Governments an anxious desire has been felt to introduce such pro...
It was thought no more than reasonable to grant this facility to the trade of Texas, under such conditions as seem best ...
The immediate proximity of Texas to the United States and the consequent facility of intercourse, the nature of its prin...
The early and prominent part which the Government of the United States has taken for the abolition of this unlawful and ...
