Ulysses S. Grant: “I recommend that so much of said act as provides for involuntary bankruptcy on account of the suspension of payment be…”

The delicate and complicated questions continually occurring with reference to naturalization, expatriation, and the status of such persons as I have above referred to induce me to earnestly direct your attention again to these subjects.

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.

If they did not take interest enough in our language to acquire sufficient knowledge of it to enable them to study the institutions and laws of the country intelligently, I would not confer upon them the right to make such laws nor to…

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