The Government of the United States has by law declared the African slave trade piracy, and at its suggestion other nati...
The destruction of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser four or five years ago occasioned no small degree of excitement a...
The early and prominent part which the Government of the United States has taken for the abolition of this unlawful and ...
It has been thought highly important, therefore, to provide for the whole case by a proper treaty stipulation.
The surrender to justice of persons who, having committed high crimes, seek an asylum in the territories of a neighborin...
If this treaty shall receive the approbation of the Senate, it will terminate a difference respecting boundary which has...
I have the satisfaction to communicate to the Senate the results of the negotiations recently had in this city with the ...
Relating to the macadamizing of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D, C.
I did not think that I could stand excused, much less justified, before the people of the United States, nor could I rec...
I can not consent to do so at the sacrifice of the peace and harmony of the country and the clearest convictions of publ...
Nothing can be more painful to any individual called upon to perform the Chief Executive duties under our limited Consti...
This is a species of constraint to which the judgment of the Executive ought not, in my opinion, to be subjected.
I most respectfully submit whether this is a time to give away the proceeds of the land sales when the public lands cons...
Surely if the pause for reflection intended by the wise authors of the Constitution by referring the subject back to Con...
After all, the effect of what I do is substantially to call on Congress to reconsider the subject.
I felt it incumbent on me to urge upon Congress to raise the duties accordingly, imposing them in a spirit of a wise dis...
The exercise of some independence of judgment in regard to all acts of legislation is plainly implied in the responsibil...
I shall cheerfully acquiesce in the result.
