Special Message
02/20/1853
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Respect to the Spanish Government demands that its urgent representation should be candidly and impartially weighed.
It is, nevertheless, a subject of national congratulation that the choice has been effected by the independent suffrages...
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
We must all consider it a great distinction and privilege to have been chosen by the people to bear a part in the admini...