"Relating to the 'Buckshot war'."
"I would respectfully invite the early attention of Congress to the adoption of the legal provisions therein suggested, or such other measures as may appear more expedient, for increasing the public se..."
"I herewith transmit a special report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, for your consideration, in relation to the recently discovered default of Samuel Swartwout, late collector of the cust..."
"In order to obtain such information as might serve to facilitate its attainment, the Secretary of State was directed in July last to apply to persons versed in science and familiar with the subject of..."
"I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this sentiment."
"I regret deeply, however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not been the case."
"A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated."
"It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will."
"The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such adventures elsewhere, numerous communities have sprung up, already..."
"But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggle, and by inevitable consequence to the war which is waged in its support, is a ..."
"By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensable to the preservation of social order in the world--been mor..."
"The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast."