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State of the Union Address: Andrew Johnson (December 3, 1866)
Andrew Johnson (December 3, 1866) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: After a brief interval the Congress of the United States resumes its annual legislative labors. An all-…State of the Union Address: James Monroe (December 12, 1817)
James Monroe (December 12, 1817) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous…State of the Union Address: Andrew Jackson (December 1, 1834)
Andrew Jackson (December 1, 1834) Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In performing my duty at the opening of your present session it gives me pleasure to congratulate…State of the Union Address: James Madison (November 29, 1809)
James Madison (November 29, 1809) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: At the period of our last meeting I had the satisfaction of communicating an adjustment with one of the…State of the Union Address: John Quincy Adams (December 5, 1826)
John Quincy Adams (December 5, 1826) Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The assemblage of the representatives of our Union in both Houses of the Congress at this time…James Winthrop: Agrippa II
Agrippa IIJames Winthrop27 November 1787by James Winthrop, AgrippaTo the People of Massachusetts.In the Gazette of the 23d instant, I ascertained from the state of other countries and the…The Congress of Women: Introduction
PrefaceOpening AddressIntroduction The Congresses held in the Woman's Building were inaugurated under a resolution unanimously passed by the Board of Lady Managers on September 7, 1891,…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Preface
PrefaceIn Mr. Cabot's prefatory note to the Riverside Edition of the Poems, published the year after Mr. Emerson's death, he said:— "This volume contains nearly all the pieces included in…State of the Union Address: James Polk (December 7, 1847)
James Polk (December 7, 1847) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The annual meeting of Congress is always an interesting event. The representatives of the States and…State of the Union Address: James Buchanan (December 6, 1858)
James Buchanan (December 6, 1858) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: When we compare the condition of the country at the present day with what it was one year ago at the…