But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the congress of Panama whether we are…

It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been made by ourselves.

My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere.

The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.

The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.

I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.

I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to their own interests, not involving ours.

ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.