Stating that no information is in possession of the Government of any negotiation of a treaty, or of any overtures to treat, for a cession of California by Mexico to England.
The officer charged with a confidential inquiry, and who reports its result under the pledge of confidence which his appointment implies, ou...
To maintain that the President can exercise no discretion as to the time in which the matters thus collected shall be promulgated or in resp...
The knowledge that such is to be the consequence will inevitably prevent the performance of duties of that character, and thus the Governmen...
Shall there be no discretionary authority permitted to refuse to become the instruments of such malevolence?
I have thought proper to direct that the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Hitchcock concerning the frauds which he was charged to investigate be...
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rendered its publication...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th instant, requesting me to communicate answers to certain queries...
To require from the Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent to the denial of its po...
He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and would be calculated t...
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate committee shall have e...