Abraham Lincoln actually said...

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of Honduras, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Comayagua on the 4th of July (1864) last.

12/13/1864

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