At the inauguration of Washington the foreign relations of the country were few and its trade was repressed by hostile regulations; now all the civilized nations of the globe welcome our commerce, and their governments profess toward us amity.
Johnson reflects on the evolution of U.S. foreign relations since Washington's inauguration.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.
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