"There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power."
"A demand for these purposes will be made in a firm but conciliatory spirit."
"It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go behind their authority and decide upon the original merits of the claim for which ..."
"Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims."
"The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States and that Republic in their sovereign capacity."
"After due deliberation, Congress, on the 2d of June, 1858, authorized the President 'to adopt such measures and use such force as in his judgment may be necessary and advisable' in the premises."
"an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock at ..."
"He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seceding States not to deliver it on the day appointed."
"I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress with my message of the 8th of January the correspondence which occurred in December last between the \commissioners\" of South Carolina and myself."
"Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence."
"It affords me great satisfaction to perform this duty."
"I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled."