Martin Van Buren: “Although these devices sometimes appear to give temporary relief, they almost invariably aggravate the evil in the end.”

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, signed at Washington on the 29th…

I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, containing the information asked for by the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad.

Applications have been frequently made at the Mint for copies of medals voted at different times by Congress to the officers who distinguished themselves in the War of the Revolution and in the last war

if it should be the pleasure of Congress that the preparatory exploration and survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States should be completed