I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and...
After due deliberation, Congress, on the 2d of June, 1858, authorized the President 'to adopt such measures and use such...
The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States an...
A demand for these purposes will be made in a firm but conciliatory spirit.
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go be...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress with my message of the 8th of January the correspondence which occurred in De...
He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seced...
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.