Martin Van Buren: “I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this…”

A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States...

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

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…

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 of America and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, signed at Washington on the 29th…