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 app...
To maintain that the President can exercise no discretion as to the time in which the matters thus collected shall be pr...
The knowledge that such is to be the consequence will inevitably prevent the performance of duties of that character, an...
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 charg...
It was stated by him that the nature and subject of the report, in the opinion of the President and the Department, rend...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th instant, requesting me to communicate answer...
To require from the Executive the transfer of this discretion to a coordinate branch of the Government is equivalent to ...
He expressed the opinion that to promulgate those statements at that time would be grossly unjust to those persons and w...
I have to request the House to consider it so far confidential as not to direct its publication until the appropriate co...