Martin Van Buren actually said...

The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions.

By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensabl...

The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast.

A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated.