"I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger."
"In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?"
"no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period."
"The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question throughout the North for the last quarter of a century has at..."
"The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves."
"It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct."
"It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the clause in question, it merely designated Captain Meigs as its preference for the wo..."
"an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 26th day of June instant, at 12 o'clock ..."
"To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection."
"If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon the same principle annex to an appropriation to carry on a ..."
"Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the purpose of obtaining special favors and choice places by legislative enactment."
"It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs should be continued in the employment to which he had been previously assigned by ..."