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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 17, 1836

The papers relative to the letter of the late minister of France have been added to those called for, that the subject may be fully understood.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 17, 1836

I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with the papers therein referred to, which, with those accompanying the special message this day sent to Congress, are believed to contain all the information requested.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Jan 11, 1836

To the Senate: I transmit herewith, for the consideration and advice of the Senate as to the ratification of the same, the two treaties concluded with the Carmanebee Indians and with the Caddo Indians referred to in the accompanying…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 22, 1835

I hereby submit, for the advice and sanction of the Senate, the inclosed proposal of the Secretary of the Treasury for the investment of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in behalf of the Chickasaw Indians under the treaties…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 21, 1835

I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention signed at Paris by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and the Swiss Confederation on the 6th of March last.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 8, 1835

the inhabitants thereof have during the present year, in pursuance of the right secured by the ordinance, formed a constitution and State government

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 8, 1835

all that part of the Indiana Territory lying north of a line drawn due east from the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Dec 7, 1835

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, exhibiting certain transfers of appropriations that have been made in that Department in pursuance of the power vested in the President by the act of Congress of the 3d of…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Apr 27, 1835

Now, therefore, I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be suspended and discontinued…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 24, 1835

I deem it unnecessary to make further recommendation, being confident that on their part everything will be done to maintain the rights and honor of the country which the occasion requires.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 24, 1835

I have deemed it my duty to instruct Mr. Livingston to quit France with his legation and return to the United States if an appropriation for the fulfillment of the convention shall be refused by the Chambers.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 20, 1835

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate as to the ratification of the same, four treaties for Potawatamie reservations, concluded by General Marshall in December last.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 15, 1835

I transmit to the House of Representatives, for their consideration, a petition to the Congress of the United States from Adelaide de Grasse de Grochamps, one of the surviving daughters of the Count de Grasse, together with the letter…

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 9, 1835

On no principle known to our institutions can he be required to account for the manner in which he discharges this portion of his public duties, save only in the mode and under the forms prescribed by the Constitution.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 9, 1835

The intimation that these charges may also be necessary 'to the investigation now in progress respecting frauds in the sales of public lands' is still more insufficient to authorize the present call.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 9, 1835

I therefore decline a compliance with so much of the resolution of the Senate as requests 'copies of the charges, if any,' in relation to Mr. Fitz.

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Andrew Jackson
@andrewjackson· Democratic · TN· Feb 9, 1835

Such a result, if acquiesced in, would ultimately subject the independent constitutional action of the Executive in a matter of great national concernment to the domination and control of the Senate.

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