I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Japan, concluded at the city of Yeddo on t...
The principle has been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress that a Te...
A wiser and better spirit seemed to prevail before the first Monday of January last, when an election was held under the...
With my deep convictions of duty I could have pursued no other course.
The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them ha...
The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Tope...
will be stopped and compelled to return by the same conveyance that took them to the country.
For these and other good reasons, I, James Buchanan, President of the United States, have thought it fit to issue this m...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
Whereas an extraordinary occasion has occurred rendering it necessary and proper that the Senate of the United States sh...
For my own part, I have deliberately determined that I shall approve no bills which I have not examined, and it will be ...