Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to avoid the consummation of an act esteemed to be so desirable by both.

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

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 also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of the nature of that which existed in Rhode Island on which side is the majority of the people or as to the extent of the rights of a mere numerical majority.

I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or supposed defects existing in any State constitution or form of government the pretext for a failure to enforce the laws or the guaranties of the Constitution of the United States in reference to any such State.

For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.

I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces of the United States

My fervent prayer is that it may never come.

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.

To the Senate: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I had referred the resolution of the Senate of the 27th December last, showing that the information called for by that resolution can not be furnished from authentic data.

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