This Government, by our institutions, is charged with the maintenance of peace and the preservation of amicable relations with the nations of the earth, and ought to possess without question all the reasonable and proper means of maintaining the one and preserving the other.
Tyler asserts the government's responsibility to maintain peace and good relations with other nations.
Share
More from John Tyler
Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on Tuesday, the 4th of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in…
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or supposed defects existing in any State constitution or form of government the pretext for a failure to enforce the laws…
Other voices in this conversation
