My first and greatest inducement was to meet in the spirit of kindness and friendship an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere.
It was not considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation that the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been ...
I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information requested by the resolution.
But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future welfare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the special interes...
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 wi...
It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to ...
The acceptance of this invitation, therefore, far from conflicting with the counsel or the policy of Washington, is directly deducible from ...
I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to th...
ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe.
Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment.
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 practi...