Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the Constitution to establish...
Fourth Annual Message
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Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate of the United States should be convened on Thursday, the 4th day of March next, you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in the city of Washington, on that day…
I lay before you, for your consideration, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Hanover.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.
I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their resolution of the 21st instant.
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