I most respectfully submit whether this is a time to give away the proceeds of the land sales when the public lands constitute a fund which of all others may be made most useful in...
I did not think that I could stand excused, much less justified, before the people of the United States, nor could I reconcile it to myself ...
Surely if the pause for reflection intended by the wise authors of the Constitution by referring the subject back to Congress for reconsider...
After all, the effect of what I do is substantially to call on Congress to reconsider the subject.
The exercise of some independence of judgment in regard to all acts of legislation is plainly implied in the responsibility of approving the...
The Executive has no complaint to make against the conduct or decisions of the highly respectable person appointed by his sovereign umpire b...
My last communication to Congress relating to that Republic was my message of the 30th of March last, suggesting the expediency of legislati...
I shall abstain, as I have done hitherto, from recommending any specific measures which might be suggested by an examination of the various ...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, calling for the recent correspondence between the Republic of Mexico an...
I herewith transmit to the Senate a report