John Quincy Adams: “If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound…”

I communicate a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with documents, containing the information desired 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…

May not the want in most instances be inferred from the demand when the service can be proved, and may not the last days of human infirmity be spared the mortification of purchasing a pittance of relief only by the exposure of its own…

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…