"I now transmit to Congress copies of communications received from the governor of Georgia relating to that subject."
"These papers were prepared at the close of the last session of Congress, at too late a period to be then acted upon."
"The delay in the transmission of this communication is attributable to the earnest desire which I have entertained of acceding to the opinions and complying with the wishes of the Senate."
"It leaves me doubtful whether it was intended by the Senate as their decision upon the nomination or not."
"I can not concur in these opinions."
"I transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents desired by the resolution."
"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolution."
"I communicate a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolution."
"Some additional documents having relation to the objects of the mission to the congress at Panama, and received since the communication of those heretofore sent, are now transmitted to the Senate."
"To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest in their welfare with which the people and Government of the Union had hitherto..."
"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 congr..."
"Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment."
"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 acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from and conformable to it."
"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."
