It is too obvious to be doubted that the misconduct of the corporation would never have been brought to light by the aid of a public proceeding at the board of directors.

If it shall be determined by the Senate that all channels of information in relation to the corrupt proceedings of this dangerous corporation shall be cut off and the Government and country left exposed to its unrestrained machinations…

I can never suffer anyone to hold office under me who would connive at corruption or who should fail to give the alarm when he saw the enemies of liberty endeavoring to sap the foundations of our free institutions and to subject the free…

The truth of the facts stated in these reports is not, I presume, questioned by anyone.

In the mode of obtaining the information, therefore, and in their efforts to put an end to the abuses disclosed, as well as in reporting them, the conduct of the late directors was judicious and praiseworthy, and the honesty, firmness, and…

Were they bound to disregard the call?

The necessary consequence will be that the bank will hereafter be without Government directors, and the people of the United States must be deprived of their chief means of protection against its abuses.

In the present state of things, therefore, the corporation will be enabled effectually to accomplish the object it has been so long endeavoring to attain.

But the bank is believed to be now striving to obtain for itself the government of the country, and is seeking by new and strained constructions to wrest from the hands of the constituted authorities the salutary control reserved by the…

If they failed to give the required information or to take proper measures to obtain it, they would be removed by the Executive.

Nevertheless, the attitude in which certain vital interests of the country are placed by the rejection of the gentlemen now renominated require of me frankly to communicate my views of the consequences which must necessarily follow this…

I transmit herewith to the House a report from the Secretary of State, containing the instructions and other papers called for by the resolution of the House of the 14th ultimo, 'relative to the trade between the United States and the…

To the House of Representatives:I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the subject of a resolution of the 8th of this month.

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information requested by the resolution of the 14th ultimo, with the documents which accompanied that report.

Such legislative provision may be made by Congress in behalf of those interested as shall appear just and proper in the case.

I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a letter from the Secretary of State, together with the accompanying papers, relating to a claim preferred to that Department, through the British legation at Washington, for…

To the Senate: I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information requested by their resolution of the 9th instant, with the documents which accompany that report.

I recommend to Congress to authorize by law that the articles already in the Department of State shall be delivered to the persons to whom they were originally presented, if living, and to the heirs of such as may have died.