James Monroe actually said...

It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in the discharge of this ...

To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in serv...

To discriminate between men of acknowledged merit, especially in a way to affect so sensibly and materially their feelings and interests, fo...

In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the grades and corps to ...