John Tyler: “I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolutions of the 20th of December and of the 9th instant, the inclosed…”

Some action on the part of Congress seems desirable in order to give full effect to these important concessions of the Chinese Government.

In view of the magnitude and importance of our national concerns, actual and prospective, in China, I submit to the consideration of Congress the expediency of providing for the preservation and cultivation of the subsisting relations of…

The special mission authorized by Congress for this purpose has fully succeeded in the accomplishment so far of the great objects for which it was appointed.

I transmit herewith additional documents having relation to the treaty with China, which may enable the Senate more satisfactorily to act upon it.