In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State of Kentucky, I transmit a report from the Secretary of War, to whom the resolution was referred.
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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?
I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.
I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it.
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