Political Quotes

Made by him in connection with Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, under instructions from the Navy Department

If Congress should be of opinion that the claim is just, every consideration points to the propriety of its prompt recognition and payment, and if the two Houses should come to the opposite conclusion it is equally desirable that the…

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.

Having in my message to Congress at the opening of the session adverted to the pending negotiations between this Government and that of Great Britain relative to the fisheries and commercial reciprocity with the British American Provinces