Martin Van Buren: “I transmit reports from the several Departments of the Government to which that resolution was referred.”

I transmit, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th of March last, a communication of the Secretary of War, accompanied by such information as could be obtained in relation to the military and naval preparations of the British…

I think proper to communicate to the House of Representatives, in further answer to their resolution of the 21st ultimo, the correspondence which has since occurred between the Secretary of State and the British minister on the same…

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.

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