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Millard Fillmore: “To the Senate of the United States: In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 3d instant, calling for information…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1853
To the Senate of the United States: In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 3d instant, calling for information relative to a proposed tripartite convention on the subject of the island of Cuba, I transmit to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State and the papers which accompanied it.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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