Martin Van Buren: “It is due to our national character as well as to justice that this should on the part of each be a fixed principle of…”

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.

They may be redeemed out of the accruing revenue if the expenditures do not exceed the amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept without prejudice to the public interest.

I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives of the United States a report from the Director of the Mint, exhibiting the operations of that institution during the year 1840