 | Robert Mayo - Jackson, Andrew - 1839 - 246 pages
...predetermined event. With what decency, propriety, or justice, this Congress is called on to decide. thereof, made from on board one of our vessels of war, on the coast of Mexico.' Such was the message. Had war been recommended and declared in December or in February, it would have... | |
 | William Jay - Blacks - 1839 - 232 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof, made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." This proposition was coldly received, neither Congress nor the nation seeming to approve of such a... | |
 | 1842 - 440 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war, on the coast of Mexico." This mode of enabling the executive to come to an amicable adjustment of controversies with a foreign... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - United States - 1842 - 90 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof made from 'on board one of our vessels of war, on the coast of Mexico." This mode of enabling the Executive to come to an amicable adjustment of controversies with a foreign... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 694 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof, made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." Doubtless this would have been a powerful diversion—not, of course, so intended ! but operating to... | |
 | United States. President (1845-1849 : Polk) - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1846 - 20 pages
...to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy ' between us, upon another demand thereof, made ' from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico. " Committees of both Houses of Congress, to which this message of the President was referred, fully... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 412 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof, made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." Committees of both houses of Congress, to which this message of the President was referred, fully sustained... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 590 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us, upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." An act was passed by Congress at this session, relating to the treasury circular, providing for the... | |
 | United States, Mexico - Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 1848 - 1848 - 396 pages
...come to an amicable adjustment of the matters incontroversy between us, upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico." This message was referred to the Committee on' Foreign Rela-' tions, which, on the 19th February, 1837,... | |
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... and the use of the naval force of the United States by the Executive against Mexico to enforce them, in the event of a refusal by the Mexican Government to come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us upon another demand... 
