John Quincy Adams: “I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even…”

I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.

The basis of them all, as proposed by the United States, has been laid in two principles--the one of entire and unqualified reciprocity, the other the mutual obligation of the parties to place each other permanently upon the footing of the…

Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.

But an unsettled coast of many degrees of latitude forming a part of our own territory and a flourishing commerce and fishery extending to the islands of the Pacific and to China still require that the protecting power of the Union should…