"Such a currency can be furnished by banking associations, organized under a general act of Congress."
"I think it my duty to express my sincere regret that it has been found necessary to authorize so large an additional issue of United States notes."
"In order to raise money by way of loans most easily and cheaply, it is clearly necessary to give every possible support to the public credit."
"That Congress has power to regulate the currency of the country can hardly admit of doubt."
"I feel that I should not perform my duty by a simple announcement of my approval of the joint resolution, without expressing my earnest desire that measures such in substance as those I have just refe..."
"My approval is given in order that every possible facility may be afforded for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pay due to our soldiers and our sailors."
"The advices which have been received from him have not hitherto been sufficiently conclusive to determine me to recognize the revolutionary Government."
"The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant."
"I have not received any representative from the revolutionary Government, which has not yet been recognized, because such a proceeding would in itself be an act of recognition."
"No definitive measure or proceeding has resulted from these communications."
"I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be deemed expedient, a copy of a note of the 8th instant addresse..."