Most of the arguments that dissuade us from employing banks in the custody and disbursement of the public money apply with equal force to the receipt of their notes for public dues.

I regret to state the appearance of a different spirit among Her Majesty's subjects in the Canadas.

Nothing can compensate a people for a dependence upon others for the bread they eat.

I regret that I can not on this occasion congratulate you that the past year has been one of unalloyed prosperity.

The people of the United States feel, as it is hoped they always will, a warm solicitude for the success of all who are sincerely endeavoring to improve the political condition of mankind.

Simplicity and economy in the affairs of state have never failed to chasten and invigorate republican principles, while these have been as surely subverted by national prodigality.

I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasury might withdraw a large portion of it from circulation and lock it up unprofitably in the public vaults.

I have heretofore assigned to Congress my reasons for believing that the establishment of an independent National Treasury, as contemplated by the Constitution, is necessary to the safe action of the Federal Government.

I withheld my approval from the joint resolution.

I nominate him to be a captain in the Navy from the 8th of December, 1838

and withdrawing the nomination of Commander William D. Salter