It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and…

There is an enlightened justice, as well as a beautiful symmetry, in every part of the Constitution.

By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to prejudice his character, notwithstanding this power of removal belongs exclusively to the President…

This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to States or individuals.

The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's apprehension for the result.

This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the people and repress this noble spirit of independence.

But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.

It will greatly reduce the market value of these warrants.

I solemnly protested against the creation of a committee, at the head of which was placed my accuser.

Is it just, is it equal, that after they have accomplished all this by their labor new settlers should come in among them and receive their farms at the price of 25 or 18 cents per acre?

By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions given by the Secretary of State to our minister in Mexico relative to the Tehuantepec route?

This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our people.

If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlarge their own powers.

I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior that the treaty should be ratified, with the amendments suggested by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, requesting any information recently received respecting the Chinese cooly trade which has not been heretofore communicated to Congress, I transmit a…

These negroes have doubtless been delivered to the marshal; and with those captured on board the Wildfire will make the number in his custody about 1,000.

I have the honor to transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the Attorney-General, which, with the accompanying documents, contains the information required.

It is truly lamentable that Great Britain and the United States should be obliged to expend such a vast amount of blood and treasure for the suppression of the African slave trade.