To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d instant, calling for further correspondence relative to Mexican affairs.
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The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?
Fourth. That the naval forces at Charleston and their commander on that station be invited to participate in the ceremonies of the occasion.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.
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