Special Message
02/14/1851
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To the Senate and House of Representatives
Since my last message to your honorable body, communicating a report from the Treasury Department, in answer to your res...
If Congress should be of opinion that the claim is just, every consideration points to the propriety of its prompt recog...
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.