"I can not too strongly recommend this subject to your consideration."
"I did so in full view of his consummate abilities, his unquestioned patriotism and full capacity to discharge with honor to himself and advantage to the country."
"The respect which I have for the wisdom of the Senate has caused me again, since his rejection, to reconsider his merits and his qualifications."
"That review has satisfied me that I could not have a more able adviser in the administration of public affairs or the country a more faithful officer."
"I was led to do so by considerations of his high talent, his exalted character, and great moral worth."
"The country, I feel assured, would be represented at Paris in the person of Mr. Wise by one wholly unsurpassed in exalted patriotism and well fitted to be the representative of his country abroad."
"His rejection by the Senate has caused me to reconsider his qualifications, and I see no cause to doubt that he is eminently qualified for the station."
"I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him."
"I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives copies of the final report and appendices of the joint commission appointed to explore and survey the boundary line between the States of Maine and ..."
"The copy of the report which was transmitted to the House of Representatives is missing from the files of the House."
"A careful search in the Government libraries of Washington warrants me in asserting that the report has never been printed."
"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention further to provide for the payment of awards in favor of claimants under the convention between the United Sta..."