In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of June last, upon the subject of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of the Mexican Republic, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a copy of the report of the commissioners on the part of the United States under the late convention between the United States and that Republic.
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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.
I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or supposed defects existing in any State constitution or form of government the pretext for a failure to enforce the laws or the guaranties of the Constitution of the United States in reference to any such State.
For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.
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