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 porti...
Their continued repetition imposes on me, as the representative and trustee of the American people, the painful but impe...
Such a result, if acquiesced in, would ultimately subject the independent constitutional action of the Executive in a ma...
If the President has in his possession any information on the subject of such frauds, it is his duty to communicate it t...
The intimation that these charges may also be necessary 'to the investigation now in progress respecting frauds in the s...
I therefore decline a compliance with so much of the resolution of the Senate as requests 'copies of the charges, if any...
In doing so, however, I deem proper to state that whenever any communication shall be received exhibiting any change in ...
Being of opinion that the residue of the dispatches of that minister can not at present be laid before the House consist...
It will be perceived that the paper herewith transmitted contains no information whatever as to the discounting of notes...
I had occasion to state the objections to requests of this nature, and to vindicate in this respect the constitutional r...