John Quincy Adams: “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…

They comprise large and valuable acquisitions of territory, and they secure an adjustment of boundaries and give pledges of permanent peace between several tribes which had been long waging bloody wars against each other.

These papers were prepared at the close of the last session of Congress, at too late a period to be then acted upon.

But it is a body of dislocated members, without the vigor of unity and having little of uniformity but the name.