Political Quotes

In compliance with your resolution of the 26th ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.

The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.

I shall be permitted to express my great grief at an occurrence which has thus suddenly stricken from my side two gentlemen upon whose advice I so confidently relied in the discharge of my arduous task of administering the office of the executive department.

I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to the two Houses of Congress the death of the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, late Secretary of State, and the Hon. Thomas W. Gilmer, late Secretary of the Navy.