Annual Message to Congress (1828)
Message of the President to Both Houses of Congress, 20th Cong., 2nd sess., Register of Debates in Congress, Appendix 2. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=007/llrd007.db&recNum=405 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of […]
Annual Message to Congress (1818)
President’s Speech, 15th Cong., 2nd sess., Annals of Congress, S11. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=033/llac033.db&recNum=3 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: The auspicious circumstances under which you will commence the duties of the […]
Annual Message to Congress (1817)
President’s Speech, 15th Cong., 1st sess., Annals of Congress, S12. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=031/llac031.db&recNum=3 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: At no period of our political existence had we so much cause […]
Inaugural Address (1857)
James Buchanan, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202401 Fellow-Citizens: I APPEAR before you this day to take the solemn oath “that […]
Inaugural Address (1853)
Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201856 My Countrymen: IT is a relief to feel that no heart but my […]
Inaugural Address (1849)
Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201869 ELECTED by the American people to the highest office known to our laws, […]
Inaugural Address (1845)
James K. Polk, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200580 Fellow-Citizens: WITHOUT solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the […]
Inaugural Address (1837)
Martin van Buren, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201813 Fellow-Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation […]
Change of Opinion Announced
The debate on the resolution relative to anti-slavery newspapers [at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society] assumed such a character as to make it our duty to define […]
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy (1855)
Hon: Owen Lovejoy: My Dear Sir: Yours of the 7th. Was received the day before yesterday. Not even you are more anxious to prevent the extension of slavery than I; […]