There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evid...
The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst fo...
This Union must be preserved.
Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.
I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon
I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretatio...
My reasons for this step may be fully understood
Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demand...
I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaire...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various docume...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secret...
The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above ...
For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceed...
I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton a...
I transmit herewith a copy of the instructions, prepared under my direction by the War Department, for the commissioners...
