"I am not without anxiety lest I appear to be importunate in thus recalling your attention to a subject upon which you have so recently acted, and nothing but a deep conviction that the public interest..."
"The Executive approval was given by me to the resolution mentioned, and it is now by a closer attention and a fuller knowledge of facts that I feel constrained to recommend a reconsideration of the su..."
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
"I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made at the Old Crossing of Red Lake River, in the State of Minnesota, on the 2d day of October, 1863."
"I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon the following-described treaties, viz:"
"It will be noticed that two claims of Peruvian citizens on this Government have been allowed."
"An appropriation for the discharge of the obligations of the United States in these cases is requested."
"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, two conventions between the United States and His Belgian Majesty."
"A copy of so much of the correspondence between the Secretary of State and Mr. Sanford, the minister resident of the United States at Brussels, on the subject of the conventions as is necessary to a f..."
"Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they hereby are, presented to Major-General Ulysses..."
"I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and Her Britannic Majesty for the final adjustment of the claims of the Hudsons Bay ..."