Politics

For obvious reasons connected with our internal affairs, the subject has not sooner been submitted to the Senate.

That amendment is of so much importance that the adoption or rejection of it by the Government of Nicaragua should not be left to construction or inference.

This renders it desirable that the Senate should decide in regard to it as soon as this may be convenient

Leave Washington entirely secure.

War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means to this end.

I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people to the subject.

The grant of transits in our favor and the guaranty of our protection as an equivalent.

I also return the treaty itself, presuming that the Senate so intended.

We ought to reflect that in this age, and especially in this country, there is an incessant flux and reflux of public opinion.

The death of this distinguished public officer, especially at the present moment, when his eminent services are so much needed, is a great loss to his country.

I deem it to be both inexpedient and unconstitutional.

Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill.

He can resort to no hostile act.

This should have accompanied the papers which have already been transmitted to the House, but was omitted by mistake.

The offense referred to in the resolution has been committed

I did not approve this joint resolution

On this question I have differed in several instances from the courts of inquiry.

A wiser and better spirit seemed to prevail before the first Monday of January last, when an election was held under the constitution.