I deem it proper to invite the attention of the Senate to the fact that with this day expires the limitation of time for the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty with Costa ...
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will...
I submit, therefore, the expediency of the passage of a resolution authorizing the exchange of ratifications at such tim...
Had I refused to adopt this precautionary measure, and evil consequences, which many good men at the time apprehended, h...
The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which al...
The peace and order of the city itself and the security of the inauguration of the President elect, were objects of such...
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the su...
I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House b...
Herewith I inclose, for constitutional action of the Senate thereon should it approve the same, supplemental articles of...
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and...