John Tyler: “I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him.”

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…

Some action on the part of Congress seems desirable in order to give full effect to these important concessions of the Chinese Government.

It is only after acquiring Texas, that the question of boundary can arise between the United States and Mexico.

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…