In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable second article and also the few words of th...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...