"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."
"If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulat..."
"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."
"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."
"ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe."
"Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment."
"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."
"I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative."
"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..."
"It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to subserve the benevolent purposes of Divine Providence; to di..."
"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..."
"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."
"The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations."
