The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade with the Pacific via the Isthmus, but they have all declined carrying them for the postages.
Special Message
Share
More from James Buchanan
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.
A demand for these purposes will be made in a firm but conciliatory spirit.
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.
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
Other voices in this conversation
