Mr. Buchanan to Mr. MacLane. No. 34.] Department of State, Washington, June 13, 1846. Sir: The President communicated to the Senate, on the 10th instant, a confidential message, of which…
No. 5. [June 12, 1846] PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF ARTICLE II OF TREATY. The following was moved in the Senate of the United States, on 12th June, 1846, as an addition…
[Untitled] Extract from a letter of Sir J. Pelly, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, to the Earl of Aberdeen. [Precise date not stated, but from internal evidence certainly later…
No. 65. Extracts from the remarks of Mr. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States, March 30, 1846. The Government of the United States has never offered any…
Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Bancroft.1 Department of State, Washington, December 28, 1846. Sir: I have obtained from the Navy Department, and now transmit to you, in accordance with the request…
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Buchanan. London, November 3, 1846. Sir: * * * * * * * * While in the Navy Department I caused a traced copy of Wilkes’s…
*No. VI.[58] Attested copy of the log of Her Majesty’s steamship Cormorant, in the months of September and October, 1846. Nineteenth day of September, 1846 .—At Fisgard Harbor. Initials of…
No. II. Copy of Treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America, signed at Washington on the 15th June, 1846. [Ratifications exchanged at London, July 17, 1846.] Her…
Mr. McLane to Lord Palmerston. July 13, 1846. * * The treaty, as concluded and ratified by the President, appearing to be in all in respects identical with the project…
*No. 46.[52] Extract from the speech of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons, Monday, June 29, 1846. * * * Sir, if anything could have induced me to…