John Tyler actually said...

"Our own interests are involved in the matter, since, however neutral may be our course of policy, we can not hope to escape the effects of a spirit of jealousy on the part of both of the powers."

"The United States would be at all times indisposed to aggrandize itself at the expense of any other nation."

"We could not be expected quietly to permit any such interference to our disadvantage."

"It is time that this war had ceased."