John Tyler actually said...

The treaty has not been communicated to the Government of the United States from any other quarter, in any other manner, or for any other pu...

The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner known to its proceedings...

I felt it to be my duty to arrest that progress, to rescue the immunity of the American flag from the danger which hung over it.

It is difficult to say that such vessels can claim any interference of the Government in their behalf, into whosesoever hands they may happe...