I transmit to the Senate a treaty recently concluded with the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, with communications from the War Department in relation thereto, and ask the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the said treaty.
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With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous and valuable acquisitions.
For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
Mexico has still to learn that however freely we may indulge in discussion among ourselves, the American people will tolerate no interference in their domestic affairs by any foreign government.
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.
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