To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives copies of sundry papers having relation t...
I now transmit a report from the Secretary or State, containing the information embraced by that resolution.
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitle...
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of t...
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 am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...
To discriminate between men of acknowledged merit, especially in a way to affect so sensibly and materially their feelin...
Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting ...
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
In executing this very delicate and important trust I acted with the utmost precaution.
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 transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the ...
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in th...
I transmit to Congress the translation of two letters from the minister of France to the Secretary of State, relating to...
Whether the acquisition of Florida may be considered as affording an inducement to make any change in the position or st...
Having executed the act entitled 'An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States' on gre...
