Political Quotes

This legislation should be, and I do not doubt will be, not only just to the natives and all other residents and citizens of the islands, but should be characterized by great liberality and a high regard to the rights of all people and of…

The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.

Only two courses are now open--one the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, and the other annexation full and complete.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the Secretary of the Interior