It is now, however, my solemn conviction that I ought no longer, from any motive nor in any degree, to yield to these unconstitutional demands.
On no principle known to our institutions can he be required to account for the manner in which he discharges this portion of his public dut...
Their continued repetition imposes on me, as the representative and trustee of the American people, the painful but imperious duty of resist...
Such a result, if acquiesced in, would ultimately subject the independent constitutional action of the Executive in a matter of great nation...
If the President has in his possession any information on the subject of such frauds, it is his duty to communicate it to Congress.
The intimation that these charges may also be necessary 'to the investigation now in progress respecting frauds in the sales of public lands...
I therefore decline a compliance with so much of the resolution of the Senate as requests 'copies of the charges, if any,' in relation to Mr...
In doing so, however, I deem proper to state that whenever any communication shall be received exhibiting any change in the condition of the...
Being of opinion that the residue of the dispatches of that minister can not at present be laid before the House consistently with the publi...
It will be perceived that the paper herewith transmitted contains no information whatever as to the discounting of notes or bills of exchang...
I had occasion to state the objections to requests of this nature, and to vindicate in this respect the constitutional rights of the executi...