If no such indemnity should be provided, then a palpable and very gross wrong would be inflicted upon the claimants who had not been so fortunate as to have their claims taken up in preference to others.
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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 shall carry with me into retirement the gratifying reflection that as my sole object throughout has been to advance the public good.
The communication of this treaty is now made to the end that suitable measures may be adopted to give effect to the first article thereof, which provides for the distribution among the claimants of the sum of $300,000, thereby stipulated…
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
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