James Monroe said...

In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.

The Secretary of State, one of the ministers referred to, has already expressed a desire that Mr. Russell's letter shoul...

We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...

It is known also that the seizure of no part of our Union could affect so deeply and vitally the immediate interests of ...