Political Quotes

I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guaranties complied with because the President may believe that the right of suffrage or any other great popular right is either too restricted or too broadly enlarged.

I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.

I transmit herewith copies of the report and papers* referred to in a resolution of the Senate of the 20th of February last.

Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on Tuesday, the 4th of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber, in this city, on that day at 10 o'clock in the forenoon is accordingly requested.