Ulysses S. Grant: “I would recommend for your favorable consideration the passage of an enabling act for the admission of Colorado as a…”

Santo Domingo is fertile, and upon its soil may be grown just those tropical products of which the United States use so much, and which are produced or prepared for market now by slave labor almost exclusively, namely, sugar, coffee…

Under the present system there seems to be no provided remedy for contesting the election in any one State.

I do not present these views now as a recommendation for a renewal of the subject of annexation, but I do refer to it to vindicate my previous action in regard to it.

The attention of Congress can not be too earnestly called to the necessity of throwing some greater safeguard over the method of choosing and declaring the election of a President.