Political Quotes

Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.

I therefore recommend the reconsideration of the subject.

The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy.

I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress with my message of the 8th of January the correspondence which occurred in December last between the \commissioners\" of South Carolina and myself.