In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information concerning the recent search or seizure of American vessels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico, I transmit reports from the Secretaries of State and of the Navy.
Message to the Senate on Interference with Vessels in the Gulf of Mexico
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Had I refused to adopt this precautionary measure, and evil consequences, which many good men at the time apprehended, had followed, I should never have forgiven myself.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
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The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
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