The delegates of the seventeen neighboring Republics, which have so recently been assembled in Washington at the invitation of this Government, have expressed their wish and purpos...
I can not too strongly urge upon Congress the necessity of giving this subject immediate and favorable consideration and of making adequate ...
I very gravely doubt whether the remnant or band of this tribe now living in Iowa has any interest in these lands in the Indian Territory.
I do not well see how they have either an equitable or legal claim to participate in the proceeds of the sale of those lands.
The United States owes a duty to Mexico to confirm to her citizens those valid grants that were saved by the treaty, and the long delay whic...
The necessity for legislation is so evident and so urgent that I venture to express the hope that relief will be given at the present sessio...
No greater incubus can rest upon the energies of a people in the development of a new country than that resulting from unsettled land titles...
To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, the House of Representatives concurring...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d instant, the Senate concurring, I return herewith the bill (H. R....
The bill does not submit the question of granting this aid to a vote of the people of the county, but confers direct authority upon the supe...
I have carefully examined the reports of the committees and every argument that has been submitted to me by the friends of the bill, but I c...