"The constitutional power of the Federal Government to construct or promote works of internal improvement presents itself in two points of view."
"After the extinction of the public debt it is not probable that any adjustment of the tariff upon principles satisfactory to the people of the Union will until a remote period, if ever, leave the Gove..."
"I have maturely considered the bill proposing to authorize a subscription of stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company."
"There is every reason to believe, as the Senate will infer from the correspondence which accompanies this communication, that the proposed arrangement will prove entirely satisfactory to them."
"No less than twenty-three different laws have been passed, through all the forms of the Constitution, appropriating upward of $2,500,000 out of the National Treasury in support of that improvement, wi..."
"I think it my duty to inform you that I am daily expecting the definitive answer of the British Government to a proposition which has been submitted to it by this, upon the subject of the colonial tra..."
"Should this branch of the negotiation committed to our minister be successful, the present interdict would, nevertheless, be necessarily continued until the next session of Congress, as the President ..."
"Any information in the possession of the Executive which you may deem necessary to guide your deliberations, and which it may, under existing circumstances, be proper to communicate, shall be promptly..."
"Although no decision had been made at the date of our last advices from Mr. McLane, yet from the general character of the interviews between him and those of His Majesty's ministers whose particular d..."
"This may be done by authorizing the President, in case an arrangement can be effected upon such terms as Congress would approve, to carry the same into effect on our part by proclamation, or, if it sh..."
"To the House of Representatives.GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith, for the use of the House, the report of a survey made in compliance with the act of the 2d of March, 1829."