I shall be permitted to express my great grief at an occurrence which has thus suddenly stricken from my side two gentlemen upon whose advice I so confidently relied in the dischar...
It affords me much satisfaction to say that it was produced by no carelessness or inattention on the part of the officers and crew of the Pr...
I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to the two Houses of Congress the death of the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, late Secretary of St...
I will also add that it in no measure detracts from the value of the improvement contemplated in the construction of the Princeton or from t...
The loss which the Government and the country have sustained by this deplorable event is heightened by the death at the same time and by the...
I would suggest the propriety of the passage of such an act without delay.
I could not forego the favorable opportunity which has presented itself, growing out of the communication from the Secretary of the Navy, to...
The urgent demands of the service for the Gulf of Mexico and the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of ships plainly point to...
The restrictions laid upon the power to transfer by the latter clauses of the act have rendered its passage of no avail at the present momen...
It would be criminal in the United States, the first to apply to practical purposes the great power which has been brought into use, to perm...
The act entitled 'An act to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriation in the naval service under cer...