John Quincy Adams: “I can not concur in these opinions.”

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

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

The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from and conformable to it.

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…