Political Quotes

The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.

With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to that Regency.

This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the embargo by the Executive was authorized, it necessarily remains in the extent originally given to it.

Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present year.