"This recommendation is specially made in order to comply with the requirements of the ninth section of the aforesaid act."
"I most cordially recommend that Lieutenant William B. Cushing, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for his important, gallant, and perilous achievement in destroying the rebel i..."
"The affair was executed in a most creditable manner."
"It is deemed to comport with the public interest, in view of the unsettled condition of the relations of the United States with that Empire, that the steamer should not be allowed to proceed to Japan."
"If, however, the Secretary of the Navy should ascertain that the steamer is adapted to our service, he is authorized to purchase her."
"The purchase money will be held in trust toward satisfying any valid claims which may be presented by the Japanese on account of the construction of the steamer and the failure to deliver the same, as..."
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
"Whereas by my proclamation of the 19th of April, 1861, it was declared that the ports of certain States, including those of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, Fernandina and Pensacola, in the State of..."
"it is deemed advisable that they should be opened to domestic and foreign commerce:"
"that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, to the limita..."
"By order of the President of the United States"
"It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence, in great emergencies."