John Quincy Adams: “The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.”

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with documents, containing the information desired by the resolution.

ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.

I can not concur in these opinions.

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…