John Tyler actually said...

We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.

It is left to Congress to consider, under these circumstances, whether, although in strictness salvage may have been lawfully due, it might ...

This correspondence will show the general grounds on which the Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with the decision of the Supreme C...

I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the position it had thus assume...