Politics

I have deemed it respectful and proper to lay before the House of Representatives these reasons for having withheld my approval of the above-mentioned joint resolution.

I shall be permitted to exchange congratulations with you, gentlemen of the two Houses of Congress, on these auspicious circumstances.

I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him.

That review has satisfied me that I could not have a more able adviser in the administration of public affairs or the country a more faithful officer.

We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.

I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the position it had thus assumed in regard to the slave trade.

The public faith in this or in all things else ought to be placed beyond question and beyond contingency.

I have hitherto flattered myself that the motives which influenced my conduct had been fully appreciated by those who advised and approved it.

For my opinions relative to the provisions contained in this bill it is only necessary that I should refer to previous communications made by me to the House of Representatives.

The chief embarrassments which at the moment exhibit themselves have arisen from overaction, and the most difficult task which remains to be accomplished is that of correcting and overcoming its effects.

If in assigning my objections to the bill I had so far forgotten what was due to the House of Representatives as to impugn its motives in passing the bill, I should owe, not only to that House, but to the country, the most profound apology.

I shall cheerfully acquiesce in the result.

This is a species of constraint to which the judgment of the Executive ought not, in my opinion, to be subjected.

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report

I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with the documents therein referred to.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to resolution of that body dated on the 9th instant, the inclosed report of the Secretary of State.

I herewith submit the same to your consideration, and will present the reports from the other Departments so soon as they are completed.

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.