"they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until the dangers to which they are exposed can be removed or lessened."
"These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on the high seas, whatsoever be her cargo and whatsoever foreign port be that of her..."
"It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States."
"The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification."
"The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public fiduciaries and for the purposes of the Province."
"It is understood to have been a shoal or elevation of the bottom of the river adjacent to the bank of the suburbs of St. Mary, produced by the successive depositions of mud during the annual inundatio..."
"This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself."
"It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city."
"Until this question can be decided under legislative authority, measures have been taken according to law to prevent any change in the state of things and to keep the grounds clear of intruders."
"The great volume of the documents and the time necessary for the investigation will explain to the Senate the causes of the delay which has intervened."
"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for the district of Detroit, and such other information as is in my possession, in re..."
"Although nothing forbids the general matter of these letters from being spoken of without reserve, yet as the publication of papers of this description would restrain injuriously the freedom of our fo..."