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Millard Fillmore: “Such an act would tend to confirm that friendship which has so long existed between the two nations and to perpetuate it…”

On the recordJune 13, 1852
Such an act would tend to confirm that friendship which has so long existed between the two nations and to perpetuate it as a blessing to both, and I therefore recommend it to your favorable consideration.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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