These injuries have been sustained under circumstances which appear to recommend strongly to the attention of Congress the claim to indemnity for the losses occasioned by them, which the legislative authority is alone competent to provide.
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I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention of American fishermen during the last…
The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.
I transmit to the House of Representatives a further report from the Secretary of State
It belongs to Congress alone to terminate this distressing incident on just principles, with a view to the highest interests of our Union.
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