It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go behind their authority and decide upon the original merits of the claim for which the war was made.
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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.
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will lapse without the possibility of carrying out the provisions of the convention in this respect.
I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled.
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.
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