Special Message
12/28/1851
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The Government of the United States is emphatically a government of written laws.
The production of gold in California for the past year seems to promise a large supply of that metal from that quarter for some time to come...
I therefore exhort all well-disposed citizens who have at heart the reputation of their country and are animated with a just regard for its ...
Given under my hand the 22d day of October, A. D. 1851, and the seventy-sixth of the Independence of the United States.