Andrew Jackson: “I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with a portion of…”

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit, for your constitutional action, a report from the War Department, accompanied by a treaty with the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians.

The Government of the United States is ever anxious to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations; but it proceeds on the principle that all nations have the right to alter, amend, or change their own government as the sovereign…

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.