Political Quotes

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.

According to the request expressed by the Senate in their resolution of November 14, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of the Treasury and statement showing, as far as returns have been received from the collectors, the number of…

I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

The favorable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted, as her orders of council had not only been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence on the part of the United States no longer to be…