Political Quotes

I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.

In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the subject of the Aves Island, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.

He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seceding States not to deliver it on the day appointed.

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.