I respectfully recommend that an adequate appropriation be made for certain expenses of the conference and of the commissioners attending the same on behalf of the United States.
In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th May ultimo, I transmit the response of the Secreta...
The honored dead who fought and perished will, therefore, be held in special and grateful remembrance.
The battle of Gettysburg will probably always be regarded as the battle which did more than any other to determine the r...
Let us here give heed to the words of Abraham Lincoln.
If our assembling In this place shall fitly honor those whom we wish remembered with gratitude, it will be because, beho...
They believed that our institutions were equal to any emergency, and that they ought to be maintained at the cost of pro...
I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Thursday, the 30t...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to its ratification, a c...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 29th ultimo, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, ...
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention defining the rights, immunitie...