Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Holmes, of Maine, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the Mission to Panama The proposition is to send deputies of some character to a Congress at Panama. The questions I shall put, and in which I have, in substance, been preceded by the gentleman from South Carolina are these What is this Congress? What are its objects and pow' ers Have we any coincident objects and powers which render a mission necessary and proper In these questions is involved the whole inquiry they embrace the whole subject, and yet they have been deemed but preliminary points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.