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On the recordDecember 5, 1852
A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to include in one comprehensive settlement as well this subject as the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British Provinces.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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