There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

This Union must be preserved.

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.

It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.

The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas.

Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands

To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of…

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above mentioned, with the documentary evidence referred to therein and a copy hereof, to be transmitted to Major-General…

I herewith transmit to the Senate a report of the Postmaster-General, on the subject of the claims of Messrs. Stockton and Stokes, with a review of that report by the Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom, under a law of the last session of…

For the several reasons above assigned, the President disapproves the opinion of the court, and remits to it the proceedings in question.