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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I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled.
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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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