SAMUEL LIVERMORE,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Ordered, That the committee who prepared the Address, wait on the President of the United States, and desire him to acquaint the Senate at what time and place it will be most convenient for him that it should be presented.
Mr. Ross reported, from the committee, that they had waited on the President of the United States, and that he would receive the Address of the Senate to-morrow, at 12 o'clock, at his own house.
Whereupon, Resolved, That the Senate will, to-morrow, at 12 o'clock, wait on the President of the United States accordingly.
Tuesday, December 10.
Agreeably to the resolution of yesterday, the Senate waited on the President of the United States, and the President of the Senate, in their name, presented the Address then agreed to.
To which the President of the United States made the following reply:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
I thank you for this Address. I wish you all possible success and satisfaction in your deliberations on the means which have a tendency to promote and extend our national interests and happiness; and I assure you that, in all your measures directed to those great objects, you may, at all times, rely with the highest confidence on my cordial co-operation.