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Millard Fillmore: “Great was my surprise to observe this morning in one of the public journals a statement of what purports to be a…”

On the recordJune 30, 1852
Great was my surprise to observe this morning in one of the public journals a statement of what purports to be a proposition, jointly signed by Her Britannic Majesty's minister here and the Secretary of State, for the adjustment of certain claims to territory between Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Mosquito Indians.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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