John Quincy Adams: “Our commerce, our wealth, and the extent of our territories have increased in corresponding proportions, and the number…”

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

But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the congress of Panama whether we are…

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.

If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulated in favor of human nature, I can not…