"I am well aware that expectations justly entertained by some of the States will be disappointed by any occasion which shall withhold from them the proceeds of the lands."
"No slight palliatives or occasional expedients will give the country the relief it needs."
"I trust that this department of the Government will be found to have done all that was in its power to avert such evils, and will be acquitted of all just blame on account of them."
"The resources of the country in everything that constitutes the wealth and strength of nations are so abundant."
"If it were consistent with the rights and duties of the executive department, it would afford me great pleasure to furnish in this, as in all cases in which proper information is demanded, a ready com..."
"But applications for office are in their very nature confidential."
"While I shall ever evince the greatest readiness to communicate to the House of Representatives all proper information which the House shall deem necessary to a due discharge of its constitutional obl..."
"For these reasons, so perfectly convincing to my mind, I beg leave respectfully to repeat, in conclusion, that I can not comply with the request contained in the above resolution."
"I have the honor to submit the accompanying report and documents from the Postmaster-General, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 16th February."
"I take the earliest moment to correct an error into which I inadvertently fell in my message of the 12th instant."
"I hasten to make the correction, not deeming it, however, of much moment in regard to the real merits of the nomination."
"I have reason to think that the rejection of Silas Reed as surveyor-general of Illinois and Missouri on the evening of the last day of the session of the Senate at the last session of Congress was rou..."