John Tyler actually said...

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...

It is far better by other means to supersede any supposed necessity or any motive for such examination or visit.

It is not to be supposed that excited attention to public and national transactions or general political discussions in Europe on subjects o...