Political Quotes

To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest in their welfare with which the people and Government of the Union had hitherto gone hand in hand through the whole progress of their revolution.

The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.

My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere.

I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.