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

To meet the temper with which this proposal was made with a cold repulse was not thought congenial to that warm interest in their welfare with which the people and Government of the Union had hitherto gone hand in hand through the whole…

I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.

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…

Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.