To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late ac...
In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in th...
In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the ...
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitle...
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of t...
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...
Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone c...
I transmit to Congress the translation of two letters from the minister of France to the Secretary of State, relating to...
I hereby withdraw all the nominations on which the Senate has not decided until I can make a more full communication and...
Whether the acquisition of Florida may be considered as affording an inducement to make any change in the position or st...
Should another war occur before it is completed, the experience of the last marks in characters too strong to be mistake...
It is known also that the seizure of no part of our Union could affect so deeply and vitally the immediate interests of ...
It is to mitigate these evils in future wars, and even for the higher purpose of preventing war itself, that the decisio...
Having executed the act entitled 'An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States' on gre...
