I have the satisfaction to communicate to the Senate the results of the negotiations recently had in this city with the British minister, special and extraordinary.
If this treaty shall receive the approbation of the Senate, it will terminate a difference respecting boundary which has long subsisted betw...
The Government of the United States has by law declared the African slave trade piracy, and at its suggestion other nations have made simila...
The surrender to justice of persons who, having committed high crimes, seek an asylum in the territories of a neighboring nation would seem ...
The line of boundary, then, from the source of the St. Croix to the St. Lawrence, so far as Maine and Massachusetts are concerned, is fixed ...
Relating to the macadamizing of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D, C.
I felt it incumbent on me to urge upon Congress to raise the duties accordingly, imposing them in a spirit of a wise discrimination for the ...
I shall cheerfully acquiesce in the result.
This is a species of constraint to which the judgment of the Executive ought not, in my opinion, to be subjected.
I can not consent to do so at the sacrifice of the peace and harmony of the country and the clearest convictions of public duty.
Nothing can be more painful to any individual called upon to perform the Chief Executive duties under our limited Constitution than to be co...