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Millard Fillmore: For these reasons I have deemed it proper to submit the whole matter to Congress, for such action as they may deem best.

On the recordJanuary 17, 1853
For these reasons I have deemed it proper to submit the whole matter to Congress, for such action as they may deem best.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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