John Tyler said...

I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to the two Houses of Congress the death of the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, ...

In the deepest grief the President of the United States has instructed the undersigned to announce to the Army that from...

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

I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...