John Tyler actually said...

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...

No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.