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Martin Van Buren: “I transmit to the Senate, in compliance with the request of the governor of Massachusetts, a copy of a letter addressed…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1840
I transmit to the Senate, in compliance with the request of the governor of Massachusetts, a copy of a letter addressed to him by one of the chiefs of the Seneca tribe of Indians in the State of New York, written on behalf of that portion of the tribe opposed to the treaty of Buffalo
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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