No consideration could induce me to give my approval to such an election law for any purpose, and especially for the great purpose of framing the constitution of a State.
I confidently believe that a time will come when these States will again occupy their true positions in the Union.
If ever the American citizen should be left to the free exercise of his own judgment it is when he is engaged in the wor...
I have considered the bill entitled 'An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient g...
A military republic, a government rounded on mock elections and supported only by the sword, was nearly a quarter of a c...
When this shall have been consummated, I pray God that the errors of the past may be forgotten and that once more we sha...
All this legislation proceeds upon the contrary assumption that the people of each of these States shall have no constit...
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 19th of March, 1867, ...
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and a copy of a letter of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, special commissioner, of the 20t...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th i...
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant, a report from the Secreta...