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Millard Fillmore: “An occurrence of this kind can not but weaken the faith so desirable to be preserved between different governments and…”

On the recordJune 30, 1852
An occurrence of this kind can not but weaken the faith so desirable to be preserved between different governments and to injure the negotiations now pending, and it merits the severest reprobation.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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