
Letter from Martin van Buren to Thomas Ritchie (1827)
Dear Sir, You will have observed an article in the Argus upon the subject of a national convention. That matter will soon be brought under discussion here and I

Dear Sir, You will have observed an article in the Argus upon the subject of a national convention. That matter will soon be brought under discussion here and I

. . . . For the present it needs only to be stated that in the ranks of one or the other of these parties were arrayed almost all the

U.S. Congress, Senate, Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Twenty-sixth Congress. December 9,

President’s Message, 26th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 2. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I regret that I can not on this occasion congratulate you that

Message of the President to Both Houses of Congress, 25th Cong., 3nd sess., Congressional Globe, p. 3. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I congratulate you on the favorable

Message of the President to Both Houses of Congress, 25th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Globe, p. 2. https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20211106014713/https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=005/llcg005.db&recNum=29 Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: We have reason to renew

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