The chief embarrassments which at the moment exhibit themselves have arisen from overaction, and the most difficult task which remains to be accomplished is that of correcting and ...
I can not forego the occasion to urge its importance to the credit of the Government in a financial point of view.
Peace with all the world is the true foundation of our policy, which can only be rendered permanent by the practice of equal and impartial j...
I therefore, in the spirit of conciliation, and influenced by no other desire than to rescue the great interests of the country from the vor...
Extravagant duties defeat their end and object, not only by exciting in the public mind an hostility to the manufacturing interests, but by ...
My convictions are most strong that these benefits would flow from the adoption of this measure; but if the result should be adverse there i...
I recommend to Congress to take into consideration the propriety of reimbursing a fine imposed on General Jackson at New Orleans at the time...
The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without which all its moveme...
I protest against this whole proceeding of the House of Representatives as ex parte and extrajudicial.
If in assigning my objections to the bill I had so far forgotten what was due to the House of Representatives as to impugn its motives in pa...
What may happen to an individual is of little importance, but the Constitution of the country, or any one of its great and clear principles ...