Special Message
02/18/1853
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In the course of the last summer considerable anxiety was caused for a short time by an official intimation from the Government of Great Bri...
A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to ...
The illness and death of the late Secretary of State prevented the commencement of the contemplated negotiation.
Our unfortunate countrymen who from time to time suffer shipwreck on the coasts of the eastern seas are entitled to protection.