Negotiations of the highest importance to our common interests have been for several years in discussion between the two Governments, and on the part of the United States have been invariably pursued in the spirit of candor and conciliation.
Adams emphasizes the importance of ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and another government, highlighting a spirit of cooperation.
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I now transmit to Congress copies of communications received from the governor of Georgia relating to that subject.
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…
These papers were prepared at the close of the last session of Congress, at too late a period to be then acted upon.
The delay in the transmission of this communication is attributable to the earnest desire which I have entertained of acceding to the opinions and complying with the wishes of the Senate.
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