Martin Van Buren actually said...

The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such advent...

But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggle, and by inevitable...

I had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for the peace and honor of their own country which have ever characterized the citizens...

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