"If this treaty shall receive the approbation of the Senate, it will terminate a difference respecting boundary which has long subsisted between the two Governments."
"The Government of the United States has by law declared the African slave trade piracy, and at its suggestion other nations have made similar enactments."
"I have the satisfaction to communicate to the Senate the results of the negotiations recently had in this city with the British minister, special and extraordinary."
"The destruction of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser four or five years ago occasioned no small degree of excitement at the time, and became the subject of correspondence between the two Governments..."
"The early and prominent part which the Government of the United States has taken for the abolition of this unlawful and inhuman traffic is well known."
"It has been thought highly important, therefore, to provide for the whole case by a proper treaty stipulation."
"The line of boundary, then, from the source of the St. Croix to the St. Lawrence, so far as Maine and Massachusetts are concerned, is fixed by their own consent and for considerations satisfactory to ..."
"The surrender to justice of persons who, having committed high crimes, seek an asylum in the territories of a neighboring nation would seem to be an act due to the cause of general justice."
"Relating to the macadamizing of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D, C."
"Nothing can be more painful to any individual called upon to perform the Chief Executive duties under our limited Constitution than to be constrained to withhold his assent from an important measure a..."
"The exercise of some independence of judgment in regard to all acts of legislation is plainly implied in the responsibility of approving them."
"Surely if the pause for reflection intended by the wise authors of the Constitution by referring the subject back to Congress for reconsideration be ever expedient and necessary it is precisely such a..."