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Millard Fillmore: This publication can not be considered otherwise than as a breach of official duty by some officer of the Government or…

On the recordJune 30, 1852
This publication can not be considered otherwise than as a breach of official duty by some officer of the Government or a gross violation of the confidence necessary always to be reposed in the representatives of other nations.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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