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...
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by...
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...
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.
I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.
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.
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by t...
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act...
upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy
I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colom...
