Martin Van Buren: “It swelled and maddened the tides of the banking system, but seldom allayed or safely directed them.”

With all the powers of the world our relations are those of honorable peace.

I transmit a report of the Secretary of State, containing the information asked for by the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad.

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Portugal, signed at Lisbon on the 26th day of August, 1840, and certain letters…

Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.