It is time that this war had ceased.

I recommend that at your present session you adopt such measures in order to carry into effect the Smithsonian bequest.

The war which has existed for so long a time between Mexico and Texas has since the battle of San Jacinto consisted for the most part of predatory incursions.

I can not, however, withhold the remark that its advantages contrasted with a bank of the United States, apart from the fact that a bank was esteemed as obnoxious to the public sentiment.

Confidence between man and man is in a great measure restored and the credit of this Government fully and perfectly reestablished.

The country, I feel assured, would be represented at Paris in the person of Mr. Wise by one wholly unsurpassed in exalted patriotism and well fitted to be the representative of his country abroad.

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives copies of the final report and appendices of the joint commission appointed to explore and survey the boundary line between the States of Maine and New Hampshire and the adjoining British…

The respect which I have for the wisdom of the Senate has caused me again, since his rejection, to reconsider his merits and his qualifications.

I was led to do so by considerations of his high talent, his exalted character, and great moral worth.

I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him.

A careful search in the Government libraries of Washington warrants me in asserting that the report has never been printed.

I did so in full view of his consummate abilities, his unquestioned patriotism and full capacity to discharge with honor to himself and advantage to the country.

That review has satisfied me that I could not have a more able adviser in the administration of public affairs or the country a more faithful officer.

His rejection by the Senate has caused me to reconsider his qualifications, and I see no cause to doubt that he is eminently qualified for the station.

The copy of the report which was transmitted to the House of Representatives is missing from the files of the House.

A copy of the instructions from the Department of State to the minister of the United States at Mexico relative to the convention and of the dispatches of that minister to the Department is also communicated.

By adverting to the signatures appended to the original draft of the convention as transmitted from the Department of State to General Thompson it will be seen that the convention as concluded was substantially approved by the…

To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, which, with the documents* accompanying it, furnishes the information requested by their resolution of the 18th instant.