Martin Van Buren: “It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual…”

The known necessity which so many of the States will be under to impose taxes for the payment of the interest on their debts furnishes an additional and very cogent reason why the Federal Government should refrain from creating a national…

I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with the documents therein referred to.

I think proper to communicate to the House of Representatives, in further answer to their resolution of the 21st ultimo, the correspondence which has since occurred between the Secretary of State and the British minister on the same…

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