I communicate a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolut...
Some additional documents having relation to the objects of the mission to the congress at Panama, and received since th...
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by t...
I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.
If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound t...
The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is dire...
It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of t...
To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest...
But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon...
It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress...
My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by...
The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring na...
The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even ...
