While I have not given nor have leisure to give the subject a careful examination, its great importance is obvious and unquestionable.

There was no time to convene them.

I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.

I bid you farewell.

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.

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

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.