No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung ...
It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in ...
The treaty has not been communicated to the Government of the United States from any other quarter, in any other manner,...
The examination or visitation of the merchant vessels of one nation by the cruisers of another for any purposes except t...
Desirous of maintaining those principles fully, at the same time that existing obligations should be fulfilled, I have t...
I have hitherto flattered myself that the motives which influenced my conduct had been fully appreciated by those who ad...
It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.
The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner know...
In compliance with your resolution of the 12th of February, 1841, requesting me to communicate to the House of Represent...
The importations into the United States from China are known to be large, having amounted in some years, as will be seen...
She has agreed in the treaty with England that correspondence between the agents of the two Governments shall be on equa...
An Empire supposed to contain 300,000,000 subjects, fertile in various rich products of the earth, not without the knowl...
The exports, too, from the United States to China constitute an interesting and growing part of the commerce of the coun...
In reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th December, I transmit herewith the accompanying letter
Events appear likely to break down and soften this spirit of nonintercourse and to bring China ere long into the relatio...
Far remote from the dominions of European powers, its growth and prosperity as an independent state may yet be in a high...
Considering, therefore, that the United States possesses so large a share of the intercourse with those islands, it is d...
