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Abraham Lincoln: I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and the…

On the recordDecember 10, 1862
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, signed at London by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 21st of October last.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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