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.
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It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been made by ourselves.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolution.
I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to their own interests, not involving ours.
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.
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