As the nature of government requires the power of removal, it was maintained that it should be exercised in this way by the hand capable of exerting itself with effect.
The history of the world has been written in vain if it does not teach us that unrestrained authority can never be safel...
While a just, proper, and watchful jealousy of executive power constantly prevails, as it ought ever to prevail, yet it ...
It places at his free disposal all the lands and goods in his district, and he may distribute them without let or hindra...
I have carefully examined the bill 'to regulate the tenure of certain civil offices.'
Under these circumstances, as a depositary of the executive authority of the nation, I do not feel at liberty to unite w...
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy,
I transmit to Congress a copy of a correspondence between the Secretary of State and G. V. Fox, esq., relative to the pr...
I transmit to the Senate, with a view to ratification, a general convention of amity, commerce, and navigation and for t...
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representati...
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior of the 23d instant and accompanying copies of letters of the Commissioner of I...