"No application or request has been made to this Government to become a party to this treaty."
"The treaty has not been communicated to the Government of the United States from any other quarter, in any other manner, or for any other purpose."
"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 open to all the world are known only in consequence of privat..."
"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."
"The treaty has thus become the law of the land by the express advice of the Senate, given in the most solemn manner known to its proceedings."
"Desirous of maintaining those principles fully, at the same time that existing obligations should be fulfilled, I have thought it most consistent with the honor and dignity of the country that it shou..."
"The examination or visitation of the merchant vessels of one nation by the cruisers of another for any purposes except those known and acknowledged by the law of nations, under whatever restraints or ..."
"It is difficult to say that such vessels can claim any interference of the Government in their behalf, into whosesoever hands they may happen to fall."
"I have hitherto flattered myself that the motives which influenced my conduct had been fully appreciated by those who advised and approved it."
"In compliance with your resolution of the 12th of February, 1841, requesting me to communicate to the House of Representatives the documents and other information in the possession of the Executive re..."
"An Empire supposed to contain 300,000,000 subjects, fertile in various rich products of the earth, not without the knowledge of letters and of many arts, and with large and expensive accommodations fo..."