John Adams said...

I communicate a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolut...

It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of t...

To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest...

The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is dire...