In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 11th of June last, upon the subject of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of the Mexi...
I therefore nominate John H. Clack to be a captain in the Navy of the United States.
In the present state of the correspondence and of the relations between the two Governments on these important subjects it is not deemed con...
The business engages earnest attention, and will be made the subject of a full communication to Congress at the earliest practicable period.
In forming the first commercial treaty between the two Governments an anxious desire has been felt to introduce such provisions as should pr...
But there are circumstances existing in this case which have been thought to justify a departure from the general rule, and the addition of ...
It was thought no more than reasonable to grant this facility to the trade of Texas, under such conditions as seem best calculated to guard ...
The immediate proximity of Texas to the United States and the consequent facility of intercourse, the nature of its principal agricultural p...
The destruction of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser four or five years ago occasioned no small degree of excitement at the time, and beca...
The early and prominent part which the Government of the United States has taken for the abolition of this unlawful and inhuman traffic is w...
It has been thought highly important, therefore, to provide for the whole case by a proper treaty stipulation.