The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.

The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

This Union must be preserved.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

I am constrained to retain the bill, without acting definitively thereon

Amid the duties constantly pressing on me, to give the subject that deliberate consideration which its importance demands

I can not think it proper, in a matter of such vital interest, to approve a bill so liable to diversity of interpretations

My reasons for this step may be fully understood

I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit a letter from the Secretary of War ad interim, accompanied by various documents, in relation to a survey recently made of the mouths of the Mississippi River under a law of the last session of…

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th ultimo, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.

The Secretary of War ad interim will cause the proceedings of the court in the case of Major-General Scott, first above mentioned, with the documentary evidence referred to therein and a copy hereof, to be transmitted to Major-General…