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...
No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty.
In compliance with your resolution of the 12th of February, 1841, requesting me to communicate to the House of Representatives the documents...
The importations into the United States from China are known to be large, having amounted in some years, as will be seen by the annexed tabl...
An Empire supposed to contain 300,000,000 subjects, fertile in various rich products of the earth, not without the knowledge of letters and ...
Far remote from the dominions of European powers, its growth and prosperity as an independent state may yet be in a high degree useful to al...
Events appear likely to break down and soften this spirit of nonintercourse and to bring China ere long into the relations which usually sub...
She has agreed in the treaty with England that correspondence between the agents of the two Governments shall be on equal terms--a concessio...
The exports, too, from the United States to China constitute an interesting and growing part of the commerce of the country.
In reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th December, I transmit herewith the accompanying letter