Inasmuch, however, as the period had expired within which by the third amendment of the Senate the ratifications should have been exchanged, the Congress of New Granada provided that 'the convention should be ratified and the ratification should be exchanged at whatever time the Governments of the two Republics may deem convenient for the purpose, and therefore the period has been extended which the Senate of the United States had fixed.'
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I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.
The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States and that Republic in their sovereign capacity.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence between the Department of State and ministers of foreign powers at Washington in regard to foreign vessels in Charleston, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.
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