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 progress of their revolution.
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The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighboring nations.
The faith of the United States to foreign powers can not otherwise be pledged.
It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been made by ourselves.
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…
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