Andrew Jackson said...

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

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

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate at their last session, I herewith transmit the inclosed documents, which c...

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith certain papers from the War Department, relative to the ...