Martin Van Buren: “This course of legislation tends to impair public respect for the laws of the country.”

I have to invite the special attention of Congress to that part of the Director's report in relation to the overvaluation given to the gold in foreign coins by the act of Congress of June 28, 1834

A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States...

I communicate the report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for by that resolution as far as it relates to the Department under his charge.

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the…