James Monroe actually said...

I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State

collected conformably to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January, 1819

In regard to the stipulation proposed as the condition of the ratification of the treaty, that the United States shall abandon the right to ...

Unexpected as such complaints and such a demand were under existing circumstances, it was thought proper, without compromitting the Governme...